Ernesto Dominguez is a Youth Technology Specialist at the Cascade AIDS Project and a Youth Leader/Peer Educator at the Portland, Oregon Advocates for Youth and at the The Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center. Ernesto is a youth advocate and strong supporter of LGBT youth empowerment. Through his years of work in the public, non-profit, and private sector he has worked to make sure all youth have access to complete and correct information about HIV/AIDS. Currently working with 8 local and national organizations that work to address issues of inequality in the GLBT youth community. Most recently his work has been centered around LGBT Latino youth, he recently was invited to present at the National Council of La Raza National Conference in Chicago Illinois, where he presented on the impact of HIV/AIDS on Latino youth. His work has focused on decreasing homophobia to increase awareness and education.