New York University’s Kimmel Center will be hosting the 2019 Latino College Expo and Leadership Summit this Saturday, March 16. Attendees will have the opportunity to attend panels, speak to other prospective students, and get advice from college graduates.

The expo was founded in 1990 and organizers work toward having a variety of resources under one roof for Latino students in NYC every year. Antonio Aponte, the founder of the Latino College Expo, grew up in the Lower East Side with a mother who didn’t speak English. He said he was able to attend college because a local organization helped him navigate the application process. He wanted to pay it forward to other students and give them and their parents access to resources in both English and Spanish.

“As a Latino myself… as a first generation student, I knew that parents in general played a big role,” Aponte said. “That was really the birth of the expo – seeing that parents needed to be more engaged in the process.”