Montezuma-Cortez High School student Danica Hope House has been selected to participate in the New Mexico Lorenzo De Zavala Leadership Program.
House was one out of 150 students chosen to be part of the program, according to School District RE-1.
The program was founded by Ernesto Niete and his wife, Gloria de Leon, who also cofounded the National Hispanic Institute. The LDZ program is a youth legislative session dedicated to Lorenzo De Zavala, a prominent Mexican American who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence in the early 1800s…