Thank you to Magdaleno and Carolyn Rose-Avila for organizing a meeting with Deported Veterans and Dreamers Moms organization leaders in Tijuana, as part of bringing attention to and developing support for their efforts to stop unjust family separations and the deportations of veterans and mothers of DACA recipients. Continue reading
Appreciate Tommee and Patty Sherwood who traveled all the way from Kansas City for the Memorial celebration of Magdaleno Rose-Avila in Denver this past weekend. A memory appeared today on Tommee’s history of supporting the Colorado UFW efforts in his younger years. Continue reading
Thank you to Daisy Madrigal and the Summer Bright Prospect Summer Academy for this post and for inviting me to be one of the presenters in the summer program at Harvey Mudd College. Appreciate the questions raised by students about lessons in making a pathway from high school to college. I have always been impressed with this program in Pomona which has been successful in increasing the number of low-income, first-generation students who enroll, persist, and graduate from higher education colleges and universities. They have achieved this through year-round academic support, life-skills training, social-emotional learning, and individualized mentorship. Adelante!
Spirited, moving, and caring celebration of the life of Magdaleno Rose-Avila in Denver with speakers, poetry, songs by Su Teatro, sharing of food, and releasing of ashes ceremony. Continue reading
Taking in Rose’s ceramics still being displayed at Ontario airport – as I get ready to depart on Southwest. Continue reading
Mexodus, running through Sunday, August 2, at the Pasadena Playhouse, superbly performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, depicts an often hidden chapter of the Underground Railroad – “of the thousands of enslaved people who sought freedom not by heading north, but by crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico. Continue reading
Honored to be a presenter at the Summer Bright Prospect Summer Academy at the Harvey Mudd College. Have always been impressed with this program in Pomona which has been successful in increasing the number of low-income, first-generation students who enroll, persist, and graduate from higher education colleges and universities. They have achieved this through year-round academic support, life-skills training, social-emotional learning, and individualized mentorship. Adelante.
The Oxford Handbook of Sociology For Social Justice Continue reading