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Hispanic employment program managers (HEPMs) are individuals in federal agencies charged with improving the representation of Hispanics in the work force. Specifically, they work to implement the office of personnel management’s 10-point model agency Hispanic employment plan. Tools at their disposal include executive order 13171, which mandates that agency heads "provide a plan for recruiting Hispanics that creates a fully diverse work force."

Federal employment faces a major reorganization during the 2003 fiscal year. The proposed department of homeland security would move 170,000 workers from 20 different agencies into a new unit, creating both employment opportunities and glitches. Military action against Iraq also would rearrange the priorities and hiring patterns of the federal government.

"Every major merger and reorganization, whether involving companies or government agencies, is a disruptive and complex undertaking," writes scholar Norman j. Ornstein of the American enterprise institute. "Career paths change, bosses change, physical locations change. Human beings naturally resist such changes. It can take years to make such transitions work, even when the entities are similar. … In the case of a homeland security department, the existing missions, cultures and locations of the 20 units being merged together could not be more disparate."

The transition will create opportunity, however. Mr. Ornstein notes that integration of information technology and accounting systems for homeland security represents a gigantic undertaking. The mission of the agency will demand new skills as well.

The HEPM council supplied the names on this directory. All individuals were contacted by Hispanic Business to confirm their HEPM status and their contact information.

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
www.usda.gov

Agricultural Marketing Service
Kenneth Johnson, HEPM
14th & Independence Ave., SW
South Building, #3704
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-8219
Fax: (202) 690-0476
www.ams.usda.gov

Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
Janis Jarvis, HEPM
4700 River Rd., #6D22
Riverdale, MD 20737
(301) 734-8789
Fax: (301) 734-3698
www.aphis.usda.gov

Agricultural Research Service
Lori Delgado, HEPM
14th & Independence Ave., SW
South Building, #3550
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-6161
Fax: (202) 690-0190
www.ars.usda.gov

Cooperative, State, Research, Education & Extension Service
Jenny Grover, HEPM
14th & Independence Ave., SW
South Building, #3919
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 690-0005
Fax: (202) 720-6954
www.reeusda.gov

Foreign Agricultural Service
Roger Mireles, HEPM
14th & Independence Ave., SW
South Building, #5503
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-1314
Fax: (202) 690-1093
www.fas.usda.gov

Food, Nutrition & Consumer Service
Jacquelyn Rodriguez, HEPM
3101 Park Center Dr., #942
Alexandria, VA 22302
(703) 305-2692
www.fns.usda.gov/fncs

Forest Service
Mary Lou Martinez, HEPM
201 14th St., SW
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 205-0558
Fax: (202) 690-1025
martinez_mary/wo@fs.fed.us
www.fs.fed.us

Farm Service Agency
Sean Clayton, HEPM
2101 L St., NW, #5404
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 401-7215
www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/default.asp

Food Safety & Inspection
Noemi Pizarro Hyman, HEPM
5601 Sunnyside Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705
(301) 504-7751
noemi.hyman@dchqexs1.hqnet.usda.gov