Charity work - Eva Longoria Parker

In 2006, Longoria founded Eva's Heroes, a charity which helps developmentally disabled children. She is the national spokesperson for PADRES Contra El Cancer. Eva Longoria Parker also signed shoes for the Spirit of Women Red Shoe Celebrity Auction. Longoria also supports the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the National Stroke Association, Project HOME and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Longoria Parker is also an executive producer of Shine Global Inc.'s upcoming documentary "The Harvest" which is focused on the 500,000 child migrant farm workers in the U.S. and is currently helping them fundraise for the film. Visit Eva Longoria Parker

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In January 2007, Longoria was chosen to be the first face of Bebe Sport. She appeared in the Spring/Summer 2007 campaign, photographed by Greg Kadel. The actress also holds model contracts with L'Oréal and Hanes, New York & Co.

Longoria has a contract with Magnum Ice-Cream and with L'Oréal She is also part of Microsoft's "I'm A PC" ad campaign. Visit Eva Longoria Parker

08012009

Eva Longoria Parker has nothing but praise for the work Henry Louis Gates Jr. has done in tracing the ancestry of African-Americans.

The Harvard professor, who has been in recent headlines is going to include Latinos and other ethnic groups in a new PBS series called Faces of America, Longoria said during the National Council of La Raza conference in Chicago this past week.

Dr. Gates traced Longoria's family roots and she spoke about their first conversation at the conference. "I think you are a fascinating person and I want to tell a Latino story of where your ancestors came from," Longoria said Gates told her. Longoria recently got her results from DNA testing and research. It turns out the Longoria family landed in North America in 1603 "which was 20 years before the Mayflower," Longoria said.

"I was blown away and Dr. Gates said I have to ...

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