--- title: "Impact | Cultural and Social Proof" description: "Bilingual proof of social-tech work, for grant evaluators, cultural partners and public-interest organizations." url: https://newdiscovery.agency/impact/ language: en --- # Impact that can be cited. _Proof that travels._ This hub collects the events, awards, and recognition most useful for grant evaluators, cultural institutions, and public-interest partners: bilingual, public-facing, and easy to verify. Events Awards Recognition Showing 17entries [ Community New Discovery Agency Impact June 2026 Community Juárez x Venezuela: direct aid after the earthquakes Liz Pasillas and Jonalex Herrera were visiting family in Venezuela when the June 24 earthquakes struck. They now raise funds to buy aid locally. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/juarez-x-venezuela-direct-aid-campaign/) [ Speaking New Discovery Agency Impact May 2026 Speaking Liz Pasillas on leading from who you already are Her mind went blank in front of 30 investors in Miami. The TEDx talk is what she built out of the three days that followed. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/liz-pasillas-at-tedx-ciudad-juarez/) [ Ecosystem New Discovery Agency Impact April 2025 Ecosystem Smart Tech Alliance took Juárez's case to government A federal deputy came to see the border's innovation ecosystem in April 2025\. Two weeks later the group was in the city's economic office. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/smart-tech-alliance-juarez-2025/) [ Appointment New Discovery Agency Impact February 2025 Appointment Liz Pasillas took office at CANACO's software section The chamber's specialised software section elected her president in early 2025, with a mandate to push digital transformation in local firms. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/liz-pasillas-canaco-software-section-president-2025/) [ Speaking New Discovery Agency Impact September 2024 Speaking Jonalex Herrera's TEDx talk on migration and identity He reshot his own border film after a director lost its essence, and told TEDx Ciudad Juárez what newcomers owe the city that takes them in. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/jonalex-herrera-at-tedx-ciudad-juarez-2024/) [ Award New Discovery Agency Impact July 2024 Award New Discovery won the Bridge Accelerator grand prize Trainlight took the top presentation prize and $10,000 in seed capital after twelve weeks of rebuilding its business model. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/new-discovery-agency-wins-grand-prize-at-the-bridge-accelerator-program/) [ Award New Discovery Agency Impact July 2024 Award Technology HUB covered the Bridge Accelerator win Technology HUB reported the win, the $10,000 seed award, and Liz Pasillas on why the team stopped selling one-off VR builds. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/gana-agencia-local-de-vr-en-the-bridge-accelerator/) [ Partnership New Discovery Agency Impact July 2022 Partnership BRP backed Juárez Aumentada's augmented reality work BRP supported Juárez Aumentada through its community programme, on augmented reality at public monuments and cultural centres. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/brp-apoya-e-impulsa-el-desarrollo-de-la-cultura-en-ciudad-juarez/) [ Recognition New Discovery Agency Impact July 2022 Recognition Juárez Aumentada won a place in the EKÁ Naweame call The EKÁ Naweame selection funded Juárez Aumentada and put a state cultural programme's name behind an augmented reality project. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/juarez-aumentada-selected-in-the-eka-naweame-call/) [ Partnership New Discovery Agency Impact December 2021 Partnership BRP backed Ruta Norte at its virtual reality opening BRP attended the inauguration of Ruta Norte's VR documentary and supported it through its community and cultural programme. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/brp-apoya-las-actividades-artisticas-de-ciudad-juarez/) [ Industrial Proof New Discovery Agency Impact August 2021 Industrial Proof Virtual reality training for Johnson & Johnson procedures New Discovery built Johnson & Johnson a procedure-training system in AR and VR, for a moment when in-person training was hard to sustain. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/johnson-and-johnson-promote-virtual-reality-training/) [ Cultural Proof New Discovery Agency Impact March 2021 Cultural Proof New Discovery built Ruta Norte around migrant testimony A 2021 account of Ruta Norte in progress: a documentary on migration to the US, with virtual reality used to close the distance. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/telling-migrant-stories-new-discovery-agencys-ruta-norte/) [ Broadcast New Discovery Agency Impact July 2020 Broadcast Ruta Norte, explained on the state's morning broadcast The founders joined Chihuahua's governor on his live programme in July 2020 to talk about the virtual-reality documentary on migration. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/chihuahua-adelante-governor-ruta-norte-2020/) [ Hackathon New Discovery Agency Impact October 2019 Hackathon Thirty hours of game-making at UACJ's runGame 2019 Students had 30 straight hours to build a game on a theme nobody saw coming. The founders came to talk about practical creativity. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/rungame-2019-hackathon-uacj/) [ Panel New Discovery Agency Impact September 2019 Panel Liz Pasillas on GCC's Talent Women in Innovation panel Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua's innovation week put four local leaders on a panel about women in innovation. She was one of them. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/talent-women-in-innovation-gcc-2019/) [ Film New Discovery Agency Impact May 2019 Film HBO picked up Malabar, co-written by Liz Pasillas The short film about an undocumented mother searching for her son ran on HBO's platforms from 2019\. Liz Pasillas produced and co-wrote it. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/malabar-short-film-hbo-liz-pasillas/) [ Festival New Discovery Agency Impact November 2018 Festival Miami New Media Festival 2018 showed the founders' work Herrera and Pasillas showed at the 2018 Miami New Media Festival, in a section on video art, robotics and virtual reality. ](https://newdiscovery.agency/news/miami-new-media-festival-2018-jonalex-herrera-liz-pasillas/) Need a partner? ## If the next grant round matters, _build the proof now._ Impact work ranks when it is visible, linkable, and easy to understand. The next step is making the right proof page findable before the deadline. [Talk about Impact](https://newdiscovery.agency/contact/) We can shape the proof layer and the application layer together.