The Esperanza Academy Dance Ensemble has about 25 students at Esperanza Academy Public Charter High School. Perhaps you’ve seen their incredible performances around the city. For these 15 to 18-year-olds, this is where talent and dedication meet passion and pride. “It brings them joy, empowerment, and self-esteem,” said Tania Ramos Otón, the Dance Teacher at…

Esperanza Arts Center seeks to promote the development, dissemination, and understanding of Latin music and culture throughout Philadelphia. EAC is the perfect place to explore your passions; a place to access resources and high-quality education in Philadelphia.

AMLA at Esperanza has remained closed since the start of the pandemic. “Without the hands on approach, without having someone there with you it just made it difficult and a lot of the young people in our community don’t have access to strong wifi,” said Daniel De Jesus, AMLA’s music education and community relations director…

Mid-September, Hunting Park’s Esperanza Arts Center welcomed recording artist and composer Daniel de Jesús as the Center’s music education and community relations director.

For years, Philadelphia has stood out for its deep poverty rate, determined by the number of people living on less than half of the federal poverty line. But the impact will be uneven in a city where thousands of the lowest-income families are not required to file taxes. While around 300,000 Philadelphia households citywide qualify…

Some residents, council members, and community leaders in areas losing their pool for a second summer want the city to reevaluate the list of which will reopen.

After spending much of the past six months as an undervaccinated community, Hispanic vaccination rates have rebounded in Philadelphia.

Rev. Rubén Ortiz is the director of national programs at Esperanza, a faith-based nonprofit working to strengthen Hispanic communities through education, economic development, and advocacy. Even before the vaccine was available, access to COVID testing in Philadelphia’s predominantly Hispanic Hunting Park neighborhood was close to nonexistent. And according to Ortiz, many in this community make…