Nonprofit organization Teach For America is looking to increase its diversity by recruiting more minorities as teachers. During its recent 25th anniversary celebration on Feb. 6 in Washington D.C., Senior Managing Director Patricia Leon-Guerrero revealed the organization's demand for more Latino teachers, as reported by NBC News.

"There is a need for more Latino teachers. Within our public schools today, 25 percent of all students identify as being Latino, and nationally 7.8 percent of all teachers identify as Latino," Guerrero said.

TFA also formed a partnership with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in September 2015 to help in the recruitment of African-American men, per NewsOne.

"We saw that in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The desire to lead is one of the values of the African-American community, so the message to lead by teaching resonates," Dr. Michael L. Lomax of the United Negro College Fund said.

According to an Education Week report in 2014, the total number of African-American, Asian and Latino schoolchildren will be more than the majority of White Americans in public schools.

Minority Teachers for Minority Students

In a report by Real Clear Education, a study from 2009 showed that minority students perform better academically under the tutelage of minority teachers. Students who were assigned to teachers of the same ethnicity got higher test scores compared to those with teachers who are of different ethnicity.

Education Next explains that students look up to their teachers as their role models. The comfort of having a teacher who they can have racial interactions with allows easier learning inside the classroom.

Impact on Latino Community

One of the TFA corps members, 25-year-old Colombian-born Natasha Borja Chavarro, told NBC News that she wanted to help Latino children just like how her first teachers helped her. She started to work for TFA in 2014, teaching math to more than 100 kids in the past two years.

"I figured it was the perfect opportunity for me to do the same with other students, help them get into college, to get a degree and the education that they deserved," Chavarro said.

The 25-year-old also added that she's not only teaching math to her students but helping them be proud of being Hispanic. She teaches them how to use their bilingual skills to become more vocal inside the classroom.

As a matter of fact, Chavarro decided to recruit her younger sister to join TFA. She is very happy that her sister has the same passion for teaching just like her.

TFA will be accepting new applicants until March 4.