HECTOR H. LOPEZ

We approached leaders at US institutions of higher learning, schools & community partners throughout the Americas to develop a pilot project to increase access & professional success in select communities of Latin America.  It planned to identify top scholars, entrepreneurs, scientists & creatives in diverse fields to advise, cultivate & support them in their ambitions & professional endeavors.  

Today, the endeavor is widely known as the NeXT Global Scholars initiative & continues to generate social impact with the ambitious ideas, projects & dreams of its membership.  Currently, there are over 1,200 NeXT Global Scholars across the globe.

🚨We have 28,000 days on the planet🚨
(average life span of 76 years)

🌍 How will you make yours count? 🌎

This media project is about the BiG questions & lessons in the journey of life as well as the BiG projects that give our days purpose.  The project is both video & podcast.

The true story of the NeXT Global Scholars in Washington. They are young. They are creative. They are a true hope for our future & inspiring to follow.

This is both a community development & media project.

This media project is all about impacting the future of higher ed.  “X” represents what we are passionate about.

🦾 Future of Work
📚 Future of K-12
🎓 Future of Higher Ed
🧮 Future of Learning

This podcast covers:
🎯 Admissions
📳 SmartCampus
💡 Entrepreneurship
💨 Student Technology
💠 Student Engagement
🔗 Blockchain in Education
🎯 Higher Ed Media & Marketing
👩‍💻Professional / Personal Development

... & much much more!

Border Sessions is a media project created to spotlight & feature artists & musicians on the borderland.

Border Sessions is all about connecting people through arts & music.  Guests have included music groups from all over the Americas live from the famed Star City Studios.

ThinkSpaces are collaborative learning spaces. Attendees come here to have topical discussions with thought leaders, driven by professional facilitators and breakthrough technology.

This isn’t about sitting in a breakout session or a 90-minute talk from an expert. It’s about being at the table to discuss future trends and their implications while getting real-time input from peers and industry leaders.

This in partnership with Beyond Academics, HEUG & beNeXT Global.

We approached high schools & community partners in countries throughout the Americas with a unique collaborative to jointly develop Instructor Las Americas: an education initiative. The partnership seeks to augment the strengths of the committed entities and to focus their collective resources on the success & development of teachers throughout the Americas.

PROJECT IN PRODUCTION.  Have ever those great conversations, debates or even arguments with close friends that start in one place & end up concluding right where you started?  This is the story of great friends engaged in those very discussions.

We approached universities & community partners in countries throughout the Americas with a unique collaborative to jointly develop Startup Las Americas: an entrepreneurship initiative. The partnership seeks to augment the strengths of the committed entities & to focus their collective resources on the success & development of entrepreneurs throughout the Americas.

Served as the founding chair of the board of directors & have directed VeMiDoc's media content strategy.  

VeMiDoc is a bilingual preventative medicine app that helps doctors help their patients even before they need to make an appointment.

VeMiDoc is a new way of caring.

Maspons MD is both a community health development & media project.  It publishes a podcast & video content to a private audience of patients. 

PROJECT IN PRODUCTION.  Doctora Eri is both a community health development & media project.  It publishes a podcast & video content to both a private audience of patients & the general public in Spanish. 

Founder, creator & executive producer of over 9 different online streaming programs on elpasoforamerica.com (now part of beNeXT Global) in collaboration with PBS, Entravision & Univision.

Served as Senior Vice President, Assistant Vice President & Northeast U.S. Director of the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) from 2004 - 2012.  Today, NHI operates beyond the U.S. in over 8 different countries throughout the Americas thanks in part to this work.