2017 MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) Summer Institute

Hidden Sonoma: Laboring Bodies and Silenced Voices

July 19 – 22, 2017 • Rohnert Park, MALCSistas!

On behalf of the Executive and Coordinating Committees of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) I extend a most sincere bienvenida to all of you to the 2017 MALCS Summer Institute at Sonoma State University. Thank you for hosting us in the ancestral home of the Coastal Miwok, Pomo and Wintun peoples. As outgoing Chair of MALCS (2016-2017) I want to acknowledge the tremendous job and extend my gratitude for the labor of the MALCSistas here at Sonoma State University. Gracias de corazón to the site committee Co-Chairs, Drs. Patricia Kim-Rajal and Mariana G. Martinez and their entire team. Muchas gracias. The theme for this year’s Institute, “Hidden Sonoma: Laboring Bodies and Silenced Voices,” indeed situates our labor, our histories, our realities and our experiences intertwined with our legacies of resistance as we face the struggles of these times. As we mujeres gather here in Sonoma, we recognize the country, our communities, our homes, and specifically our bodies are enduring constant trauma, pain, suffering, and loss. The Latina Feminist Group (2001) states it best when describing how our bodies endure these aggressions—this onslaught of assaultive speech and action has a lasting impact on us. We routinely withstand the “ravages of institutionalized racism, by the patriarchal structures that accord privilege on the basis of gender and class, and by the sexism and heterosexism that forbid love and silence desire” (p. 263). This is an intergenerational trauma we are continuing to name, bear and resist. More recently we face not only the actions of Islamophobic, racist, transphobic, and xenophobic perpetrators, but also the impunity with which they commit such atrocities. Backed by the system, these culprits persist in inflicting distress and loss in our communities without consequence. The Latina Feminist Group (2001) write about how the body “re/members” the “agravios, the assaults” (p. 263)—our bodies chronicle what they endured; they are marked by a history of raced-gendered violence, persecution, and subjugation and yet “our bodies give testimony, our bodies awaken” (p. 263) and we begin to heal. We are resilient peoples who defy, challenge, speak back and denounce oppression and marginality and we also take action because we are about letras y cambio social— now more than ever. We hope this year’s Institute will serve all attendees to re/center ourselves, to learn, to engage, to imagine and envision, to coalesce. As the Program Committee reviewed over 120 proposals—we were motivated and inspired. Indeed, we were recharged and encouraged to continue en la lucha. The proposals emphasized the commitment that MALCSistas across the country have for the organization, and they showed the urgency of sharing/telling to heal—desahogarse. Themes for the Institute include: Mujerista Theories, Resistance, and Consciousness; Identity and Poetic Justice; and La Familia, Masculinity and White Supremacy. Panels include: Abriendo Caminos/Opening Pathways; Machas & Tombois: Reflections on Chicanx Butchness and Resistance; and Voice and Resistencia: Feminista Praxis as Profesoras in the Academy. From July 19-23, we will gather and bring with us the ailments of our communities because we are the; “Privileged listeners, [and] we learn firsthand about the aches and pains, fears and hopes, illnesses and remedies, health care, home care, and barrio care” (Chabram-Dernersesian, 2008, p. 4) from our gente. Despite all the barriers that have been constructed to keep us in place, we have and will continue to resist, subvert, challenge, and transform because we are Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social!

Sinceramente y en solidaridad,

Judith Flores Carmona Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, Chair (2016-2017) 2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2 2 Sonoma State University Office of the President 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Dear 2017 MALCS Summer Institute Participants,

Welcome to Sonoma State University! We are delighted and honored to host this important conference on our campus. Mujeres Actives en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) plays an important role in opening up intellectually vibrant conversations and support networks for Chicana/Latina and Native American women in academia. Historically in our society, too often the voices of women of color have been undervalued or not heard at all. The MALCS Summer Institute provides fertile ground for sharing ideas and building community through lectures, workshops, seminars and informal interactions in a supportive environment with other Chicana/Latina and Indigenous women scholars and activists. Through such revitalizing work, together we can build bridges to a better future – one in which the contributions and voices of the next generation of Chicana/Latina and Native American women leaders will be both respected and celebrated.

I want to acknowledge our student club MALCS de SSU chapter leadership for taking the initiative to co-host this national institute at Sonoma State. By bringing together hundreds of women of color on our campus, MALCS de SSU is an inspiration and a source of academic and interpersonal nourishment in the community. I am proud to have you here and I send everyone my wishes for a wonderful and successful conference.

With warm regards,

Judy K. Sakaki President, Sonoma State University

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 3 3 Dear MALCSistas,

On behalf of the site committee, welcome to Sonoma county. World-famous for its wine industry, the hills of Sonoma have also been a site for political injustice, colonial violence, and economic subjugation. Originally home to the coastal Miwok, Pomo and Wintun peoples, the land we stand on became the site of Russian and Mexican settlements in the early 19th century--including the northernmost of California’s 21 missions--and, later, of the Bear Flag revolt. Today several business associations spend quite a bit of money to ensure that most people associate Sonoma with panoramic vistas of ripening vineyards, beautiful blue skies, bountiful, exquisitely prepared food, and delicious wine. It is true that we are blessed with all of those things. It is also true that those things are not within reach for a sizable number of the people whose work underwrites the mythology of natural abundance more commonly associated with the region. Sonoma County has the largest Latino population in the North Bay region. From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population in Sonoma County saw a nearly 50% increase, rising from 84,093 to 120,430 individuals. In 2013 that number grew to 128,211, which is 26% of the overall Sonoma County population. In the 2015 -2016 school year, 45% of K-12 students in Sonoma County were Latino. In the 2014 – 2015 school year, 12.7% of Latino students dropped out between grades 9 and 12. Aggregate household income for Latinos in Sonoma County is $2billion, accounting for an estimated $307 million in disposable income, 33% of the labor force in Sonoma County is Latino. In the service industry, 85% of the workforce is Latino. The number of Latino-owned firms has also increased rapidly in Sonoma County. In 2012, there were 5,024 Latino-owned firms in Sonoma County. Nationally, the growth of -owned businesses in the U.S. is outstripping that of companies in general. Between 2012 and 2015, the number of Hispanic- owned businesses has grown at an annual rate of 7.5%, 15 times faster than the 0.5% growth rate for all companies. The theme of this year’s institute, “Hidden Sonoma: Laboring Bodies, Silenced Voices” was chosen to remember and honor Latinas, and others, whose invisible and underpaid labor in the agriculture and service industries underwrites pastoral fantasies that obscure inequality. We also wanted to recognize the luchadoras among us, Latinas who have refused to abide injustice and ill-treatment, for themselves or their communities. For example, Amelia Ceja, who worked alongside her family in the fields even while in college and now serves as the President of Ceja Vineyards. Amelia has been committed and an impassioned advocate for the value and fair treatment of farm workers, following in the footsteps of her father’s work with Cesar Chavez and the labor union in the early 1970s, being awarded the Dolores Huerta Farmworker Justice Award for her successful advocacy for Worker Protection Standard on pesticides. Her story, sadly is still very little known among other Latina women in the community. Our other speaker, Leticia Valentin Romero, an organizer in the community for over 20 years. Organizing around social and labor issue, and most recently around parent advocacy for educational equity in rural areas and migrant families. Her work is also personal, as she is the first mujer to become a jefa in a local danza azteca group. We know that our work cannot be done without the support and involvement of our mujeres, we value all of the work but most importantly we value their humanity. MALCSistas, welcome! We know the work that has been done and what is still ahead, so please take the time to be excited, share ideas, conocimiento, network, support one another, and we welcome your support as we, SSU, transition into our new designated HSI status.

¡Bienvenidxs a Sonoma!

Mariana G. Martinez, Ph.D. Patricia Kim-Rajal, Ph.D. Co-Chair, 2017 MALCS Summer Institute Co-Chair, 2017 MALCS Summer Institute

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“The revolution begins at home” ~ Cherrie Moraga

¡Bienvenidxs!

It is with great pleasure to have this year’s Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Summer Institute 2017 at Sonoma State University (SSU). From July 19-July 23, we hope to provide a space to share our herstories and re/connect.

This year’s theme is deeply connected to not only to our current sociopolitical climate, but also the much-needed conversation around the less visible side of Sonoma Valley. Growing up in Napa Valley and getting to know Sonoma County since I enrolled at SSU, the racial/ethnic, gender and class disparities have become more visible through time. With the changing administration, locally and federally, our multiple communities and spaces are targeted.

I hope everyone in attendance takes this conference as an opportunity to take up space, recharge and be unapologetically themselves. I want to also wish you all a great Summer Institute!

In solidarity,

Patricia Ayala Macías Founder and former Co-Chair of MALCS de SSU

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 5 5 MALCS Leadership 2017 MALCS Site Committee Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson: Ex-Officio Patricia Kim-Rajal (Co-Chair) Judith Flores Carmona: Chair Mariana G. Martinez (Co-Chair) Ariana Aparicio Cecilia “CC” Aragon: Chair Elect Isabel Lopez Vanessa Fonseca: Membership Coordinator Patricia Ayala Macías Lisa Justine Hernandez: Treasurer Monica Cornejo Robledo Lupe Gallegos-Diaz: Administrative Coordinator Evelin Sustaita Sonya Aleman: Chicana/Latina Studies Rep. Melissa Vargas Liliana Saldaña: Chicana/Latina Studies Rep. Jacqueline Echeverria Elena Aviles: Webjefa Sarai Hernandez Seiri Aragon García Dora Lopez Mata: At-Large Representative Griselda Madrigal Lara Sandra Pacheco: At-Large Representative Yolanda Ayala Martha O. Acevedo: At-Large Representative Nancy Dominguez Irlanda Jacinto: Historian Briana Rodriguez Jean Aguilar-Valdez: Recording Secretary Alexis Carrillo

Caucus Information LBTQ Caucus – Isabel Millan, Nidia Moran Women’s Indigenous Native Caucus – Jennie Luna, Maria Ramirez Undergraduate Student Caucus – Pilar Manriquez, Pauline Acosta, Alejandra Lopez Graduate Student Caucus – Liliana Castrellón

JUNE 1983 MALCS DECLARACIÓN “We are the daughters of working class families involved in higher education. We were raised in labor camps and barrios, where sharing our resources was the basis of survival. Our values, our strength derive from where we came. Our history is the story of the working- class people–their struggles, commitments, strengths, and the Chicano/Mexicano experience in the United States. We are particularly concerned with the conditions women face at work, in and out of the home. We continue our mothers’ struggle for economic and social justice. The scarcity of Chicanas in institutions of higher education requires that we join together to identify our common problems, to support each other and to define collective solutions. Our purpose is to fight the race, class, and gender oppression we have experienced in the universities. Further, we reject the separation of academic scholarship and community involvement. Our research strives to bridge the gap between intellectual work and active commitment to our communities. We draw upon a tradition of political struggle. We see ourselves developing strategies for social change–a change emanating from our communities. We declare the commitment to seek social, economic, and political change throughout our work and collective action. We welcome Chicanas.”

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 6 6 1991 MISSION STATEMENT

“Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in Letters and Social Change) is an organization of Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women working in academia and in community settings with a common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of Chicana/Latina and Native American women’s issues. Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women from a variety of institutions gather at this yearly Summer Institute to network, share information, offer support and re-energize. The MALCS Summer Institute is one of the few places Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women can come together without the influence of male and/or Euro-American consciousness or opinion. While some charge that this is separatist, the MALCS reply is not one of apology. This is our space. The dynamics of this Chicana/Latina and Native American woman space is worth guarding, even in the face of criticism from those we respect and work with in our home institutions. Adopted at Laredo, Texas, 1991.”

Notes

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 7 7 Crystal Galindo Artist Statement

Crystal Galindo’s need to create started as a child, though she began studying and pursuing art as a career at 21 years old. After graduating from College of the Sequoias in 2009, Crystal moved on to double major in Painting and Chicano Studies at Sonoma State University.

Though faced with adversity and harsh critique, Crystal used her numerous self- portraits, body type exploration and focus on the Chicana experience to create her own artistic language. Inspired by the lack of representation of women of color in the media, Crystal’s work spotlights Xicanas in a positive, realistic light.

Her latest series, “Dulceria” (Candy Store) uses Mexican candy, sweets, and culturally specific snacks to encourage women and femmes of color to shed the guilt that exists in our community when we practice self- indulgence and independence.

http://crystalgalindo.com

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 8 8 Wednesday July 19th Thursday July 20th

5:00-7:00pm 8:00am-5:00pm Registration Registration (Student Center) 8:30 -9:45am: Session One 2:00-5:00pm Writing Workshop I 10:00-11:15am: Session Two

6:00-8:00pm 11:30-12:45pm: Plenary Session One Welcome Reception 12:45-2:00pm: Lunch on your own MALCS 2017 Artist: Crystal Galindo 2:15-3:30pm: Session Three

Sponsored by Office of the Provost; School of 3:45-5:00pm: Session Four Business & Economics

Friday July 21st Saturday July 22nd

8:00-11:00 Writing Workshop 8:00-12:00 Registration

8:30 -9:45am: Session Five 8:30 -9:45am: Session Eight

10:00-11:15am: Session Six 10:00-11:15am: Session Nine

11:30-12:45pm: Plenary Session Two 11:30-12:45pm: Plenary Session Three

12:45-2:00pm: Lunch on your own 12:45-2:00pm: Lunch on your own

2:15-3:30pm: Session Seven 2:15-3:30pm: Session Ten

3:45-5:00pm Caucus Meetings 3:45-5:00pm Business Meeting

6:00-9:00pm Noche de Cultura 7:00 Tortuga Awards Dinner

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 9 9 Wednesday July 19th 2017 Student Center

Pre-Institute Professional, Emotional Well-Being, and Academic Workshops *Pre-Registration Required for Workshops A1-2, and B1-2. (Email At-Large Representative Dr. Sandra M. Pacheco [email protected] to register)

9am-12pm Student Center A1. Demystifying Academic Writing with Dr. Wanda Alarcón Knight Valley Writing is hard. The reasons are not always mechanical yet it helps to have an understanding of some of the forms in which undergraduate and graduate students are expected to write. The goals of this workshop include: introduction to academic genres; a discussion on revision; handy tips to strengthen writing. This writing workshop is geared toward undergrads and graduate students. Workshop is limited to 16 participants.

A2. Healing Workshop: Remedios y Rituales Russian River Curanderas sin Fronteras will provide an interactive workshop where participants will learn how to make different remedios they can take home. The focus will be on hierbas and remedios for stress and protection. There is a small sliding scale fee of $10-$15 for materials. Limited to 20 participants.

1pm-4pm Student Center B1. Creating a Rhythm and Schedule for your Writing with Dr. Cindy Cruz Sonoma Valley Advanced grad students, post docs, and early career faculty are invited to participate in a pre-institute workshop on writing time management. Participants will: • Build skills on writing time management in academia • Learn about embodied decolonial practice, and negotiating time, research, teaching, and service • Centralize the epistemology of the "Brown" body, Person of Color, and Queer Person of Color, to help us see the body as a site of knowledge to frame agency in academia. Please bring your calendars/schedules with you! Workshop is limited to 16 participants.

B2. Healing Workshop: Limpias y Baños Espirituales Russian Valley Curanderas sin Fronteras will provide an experiential workshop where participants will learn about limpias (energetic cleanses) and baños espirituales. Participants will have the opportunity to do a limpia on themselves and learn how to do both limpias and baños espirituales as a form of self-care, an act of resistance, and as soul-tending. There is a small sliding scale fee of $10-$15 for materials. Limited to 20 participants.

Writing Workshops 2:00 – 5:00pm Academic with Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes Bennet Valley Creative with Dr. Patricia Trujillo; Dr. Carla Trujillo Knight Valley Registration Now Closed

MALCS for Beginners (Executive Board/Coordinating Committee) 4:00-5:00pm Alexander River

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1010 Thursday July 20th 2017 Stevenson Hall Stevenson Hall

Session 1: 8:30 -9:45am

Panel: Love and Sex: Searching for Papeles in the Trump Era Stev. 3028 • Evelin Sustaita, Sonoma State University • Seiri Aragón & Griselda Madrigal Lara, University of Texas at Austin

Papers: Mujerista Theories, Resistance, and Consciousness Stev. 3072 Carving a Space: The Need for a Chicana/Latina Motherwork Theoretical Framework in Family Science • Mariana del Hierro, University of Colorado Denver Mujerista Consciousness: An Intersectional Exploration of Chicana College Graduates’ Resistance and Solidarity • Victoria Navarro Benavides, University of Arizona Trespassing the Discursive Borders: The Presence of Spanish Language in the White Public Space • Jocelyn Gómez, University of New Surviving Single Motherhood in the Academy and Beyond • Irene Sánchez, scholar/writer/poet

Panel: Cuerpos y Almas: Reclaiming Xicana Bodies and Souls Stev. 3038 • Alejandra Regla-Vargas, Corina Benavides-López, Janet Ibarra, & Diana Madrigal, CSU Domínguez Hills

Workshop: Círculos de Consejos: Intersectional Identities: Part One Stev. 3015 • Paulina Acosta, MALCS Bay Area Chapter at UC Berkeley

Workshop: Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) for Beginners Stev. 3077 • MALCS Executive Board/Coordinating Committee

Panel: Testimonios and Pláticas in Feminist Educational Research: Stev. 3036 Methodologies, Representations and Further Considerations • Silvia Patricia Solis, Andrea Garavito Martínez, Cindy O. Fierros, University of Utah • Nancy Huante- Tzintzun, CSU Sacramento

Session 2: 10:00-11:15am Panel: The Power of Telling Your Story: Academic Success Stev. 3077 • Olga Talamante, Joanna Beltrán Girón, Vanessa Segundo, & Edith Arias, Chicana Latina Foundation

Performance: “Cayaditas se ven más bonitas”: Laboring Bodies Stev. 3038 Surviving Academia • Dora López, Marsela Rojas, & Tania Corona Navarro, CSU Northridge 2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1111 Panel: Narrar la Violencia: On Dialectics of Survival & Testimonios Stev. 3044 • Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez, Cynthia Bejarano, & Judith Flores Carmona, New Mexico State University

Panel: For the Girls Who Left Hood Violence to PWI Violence: Stev. 3030 Mapping the Remnants of Colonialism on our Brown Bodies • Armely Pichardo, Davika Parris, Florcy Romero, & Chela Garden, Clark University

Papers: Speaking Against Oppression, Identity, and Poetic Justice Stev. 3072 Unos Cuantos Piquetitos: The Systemic Silencing and Domestication of a Latina Scholar • Jean Aguilar-Valdez, Portland State University, Paper-performance Poetry as a Form of Resistance: A Bilingual Academic Poet • Lilian Cibils, New Mexico State University Silencing Identity through the Silencing of Voice: How the Former Ban on Spanish Language of the U.S Affects Chicana/o/x Identity in Contemporary Generations • Sandra Paulina Soria Jiménez, University of New Mexico Indigenous Feminist Hip-Hop: Invoking the Maíz Goddess to Speak Against Neoliberal Violence • Norell Martínez, UC San Diego

Workshop: La Llorona Meets Windigo: Horror Stories as Lessons of Hope Stev. 3095 • Melissa Bennett, The Evergreen State College • Elena Avilés, Portland State University

Panel: Muxerista y Jotería Resilience: Re/Claiming Truths, Voice y Stev. 3028 Resistencia • Anita Tijerina Revilla, University of Nevada, Las Vegas • Veronica García, Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (Oakland) & Paso del Norte OUT Fund (El Paso) • Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee (El Paso)

Papers: La Familia, Masculinity and White Supremacy Stev. 3036 White Male Supremacy behind Mental Health: Women Protect Yourself • Caroline Bezerra, Soka Gakkai International-SGI Discursive Dependence: Women, Humor, Cine, and Gendered Mexican Identities, 1930s to 1980s • Nancy Quiñones, California State Polytechnic University

Plenary One: 11:30-12:45pm Person Theater

Site Committee Panel: Hidden Sonoma: Laboring Bodies and Silenced Voices Dra. Mariana G. Martínez, Coordinator, UndocuResource Center, Sonoma State University Amelia Ceja, President, Ceja Vineyards Leticia Romero Valentín, Executive Director, Corazón Healdsburg

Lunch Break, 12:45-2:00pm

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1212 Session 3: 2:15 – 3:30pm

Panel: With Nana Meztli As Our Guide Stev. 3028 Revolucionarias Espírituales • Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli Caraya Love • Ana-Maurine Lara, University of Oregon Psycho-Spiritual Emergence Crossroads • Angela Mictlanxotchil Anderson

Roundtable: Toward a Feminista Leadership Praxis Stev. 3077 •Judith Flores Carmona, New Mexico State University • Lupe Gallegos-Díaz, UC Berkeley • L. Justine Hernández, St. Edwards University • Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, Trinity University

Papers: Latina Leaders en la Lucha Speak Back Stev. 3036 U.S.-Mexico Border Leaders Working in a Challenging Political Climate • María de Lourdes Viloria, Texas A&M International University Letters To… • Tania Corona Navarro, CSU Northridge Latina Leaders • Theresa Torres, University of Missouri-Kansas City Luchando con el Corazón: Mexican and Mexican-American Women Defining Education Justice in the Heart of Chicago • Laura J. Ramírez, University of Illinois at Chicago

Panel: Testimonios de Jotería en la Frontera Stev. 3038 • Diana López, New Mexico State University

Workshop: Mujer Tierra y Poder: Challenging Dominant Representations Stev. 3030 and Healing through the Female Corporal Narrative •Diana Cervera, Hilanderas Feminist Collective

Roundtable: Que Poca Madre: A Toda Madre a Taxing Relationship Stev. 3044 • Adilia E. Torres, Community Mental Health • Suguey Hernández-Vásquez, & Rebecca Gonzales

Session 4: 3:45-5:00pm

Panel: Latina/o Journals and Collaborative Research: History and Process Stev. 3038 • Elizabeth C. Martínez, De Paul University • Gabriela Baeza-Ventura, University of Houston • Annemarie Pérez, CSU Domínguez Hills

Papers: Women of Color and Queer Students Surviving in STEM Fields Stev. 3036 The STEM Leaky Pipeline • Alejandra Lerma, New Mexico State University Self-Preservation and Healing in the Walls of the Academy: Strategies to Survive STEM Fields as a Womxn of Color • A. Catalina Camacho, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley The Bodies of Latinx Queers, Ableism, & Survival • Theresa Soto, Unitarian Universalist Association

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Panel: Abriendo Caminos/Opening Pathways Stev. 3044 • Norma A. Marrun, Valerie Taylor, & Rosemary Q. Flores, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Panel: Opportunities and Constraints in the Pursuit of Higher Education Stev. 3030 • Erica Zamora, Heidy Sarabia, & Laura Zaragoza, CSU Sacramento

Performance: Broken Tongues, Broken Identities: A Dialogue about Stev. 3072 Our Latinx Roots through Movement Exploration • Jocelyn Pánfilo, UC Berkeley

Workshop: The Power of Participatory-based Music Practices as Stev. 3095 Vehicles to Generate and Transmit Knowledge • Iris C. Viveros Avendano, University of Washington

Panel: When the Borderlands are Our Bodies… Stev. 3077 • Hope Casareno, Pauline Cashion & Lucy Arellano, California Institute of Integral Studies

Friday July 21st 2017 Stevenson Hall Stevenson Hall Writing Workshops 8-11am Academic with Dr. Alejandra Elenes Alexander Valley Creative with Dr. Patricia Trujillo; Dr. Carla Trujillo Bennett Valley

Session 5: 8:30 -9:45am

Panel: Machas & Tombois: Reflections on Chicanx Butchness Stev. 3038 and Resistance • Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Trinity University • Linda Heidenreich, Washington State University • Yvette J. Saavedra, CSU San Bernardino • Nancy “Rusty” Barceló, Activist-Scholar-Administrator

Workshop: Caras vemos, (más)caras no conocemos: Stev. 3030 Personal and Social Healing • Josie Méndez-Negrete & Mariana C. Zaragoza, University of Texas at San Antonio

Papers: Decolonial Imaginary, Language and Shifting Methodologies Stev. 3072 Alma López’s Heaven • Gilda Posada, California College of the Arts/Galería de Indígena Imaginaries: Toward Queer Decoloniality • V. Gina Díaz, University of New Mexico & UC Davis Shifting the Discourse: The Deployment of the “X” • Pablo Montes, University of Texas at Austin 2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1414 Workshop: Círculos de Consejos: Intersectional Identities: Part Two Stev. 3044 • Paulina Acosta, MALCS Chapter at UC Berkeley

Workshop: Navigating our Online Tools/Resources: Stev. 3095 MALCS.org and Wild Apricot • Elena Avilés, Portland State University • Vanessa Fonseca, Arizona State University

Panel: “I entered the education system with an opportunity gap”: Stev. 3036 Healing, Voicing, and Resisting through Biography-driven Pedagogy • Leticia Burbano de Lara, Faith Calvo, Johanna Carrazco, Saira Hernández, & Kenia Pinela, Colorado Mountain College

Session 6: 10:00-11:15am

Panel: Voice and Resistencia: Feminista Praxis as Profesoras in the Academy Stev. 3038 • Mari Castañeda, University of Massachusetts, Amherst • Sonya M. Alemán, University of Texas at San Antonio • Claudia Anguiano, CSU Fullerton

Papers: Defying and Resisting Xenophobia and Topographies Stev. 3072 of Brown Bodies in the Media Maids in *Manhattan*: Racist, Sexist, and Ahistorical Depictions of New Mexican Women and Place in the Television Show *Manhattan* • Myrriah Gómez, University of New Mexico Art Voices Resistance • Jeanette Alanis, San Francisco State University The New Latinx Movement: The Digital Media Company Mitú Brings Latinx Culture into Mainstream Entertainment • Katrina Baca, University of New Mexico “Social Geographies of Fat: Fat Female Bodies Producing Counter-Topographies in Discourses of Latinidad” • Joanna E. Sánchez-Avila, University of Arizona

Panel: Contando Nuestras Historias con Quipus Stev. 3028 Adriana Rangel & Noralee Jasso, San José State University • Jessica Rodríguez, University of Washington

Papers: Border Crossings, Voice and Activism Stev. 3036 Living Without Fear: La Frontera • Lena Vásquez, New Mexico State University - MHAR (Mujeres y Hombres Activ@s Revolucionari@s) La Activista That I Was Meant to Be • Elizabeth Castrejón, New Mexico State University - MHAR (Mujeres y Hombres Activ@s Revolucionari@s) The Cost of Human Morality: Crimmigration and Border Crossing in Arizona • Olivia Marti, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chicana Poetry as a Voice for Victims of Femicidio in Ciudad Juárez • Gabriela Serrano, Angelo State University

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1515 Workshop: Writing Resistance: Defining Our Existence Stev. 3095 • Irene Sánchez, scholar/writer/poet

Plenary 2, 11:30 am -12:45pm Person Theater

MALCS Plenary: Nepantlan Warriors, Laboring Bodies, and Communal Practices Linda Heidenreich, Associate Professor - Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies, Washington State University Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Associate Professor of English, University of North Texas Cynthia Aragon, Attorney at Law, Albuquerque, NM

Lunch Break, 12:45pm-2:00pm

Session 7: 2:15-3:30pm

Panel: Educación en : Pláticas and Testimonios Stev. 3038 of Privilege, Marginalities, and Resistance • Rebeca Burciaga, San José State University • Dolores Delgado Bernal, University of Utah & CSU Los Angeles • C. Alejandra Elenes, Arizona State University • Judith Flores Carmona, New Mexico State University

Roundtable: Conversations at the Kitchen Table: Stev. 3095 Chicana Sabiduría, Resistencia, and Peace Activism, Past to Present • Dionne Espinoza, CSU Los Angeles • Felicitas Nuñez, community activist, writer, performance • María Elena Ramírez, community activist/storyteller/performance artist • Nina Genera, community activist, Ohlone Community College • Paula Miranda, independent scholar • Jessica Cordova, independent scholar, & Martha Salinas, community member

Panel: Tales from the Ivory Tower: Women of Color’s Stev. 3036 Resistance to Whiteness in Academia • Mariana del Hierro, Cheryl E. Matias & Danielle Walker, University of Colorado Denver Papers: Consciousness, Diasporic Narratives, and Art as Resistance Stev. 3008 Unraveling los Hilos que Tejen; Examining Intergenerational Latina Diasporic Narratives • Vileana De La Rosa, San Diego State University When I Declared Mi Raza: The Claiming of Contemporary Chicana Identity • Julianna Christine Wiggins, University of New Mexico Laboring Chicana Bodies: Documenting Exploration, Demonstrating Resistance in Chicana Photography • Ann Marie Leimer, Midwestern State University

Panel: A Collective Path of Love: Reassembling Coyolxauhqui a Stev. 3028 Nuestra Manera • Adeli Ynostroza, Elizabeth Silva, Liliana Castrellón, Andrea Hernández, Alicia de León, & Silvia Patricia Solis, University of Utah

Workshop: Pan Dulce Pláticas at UC San Diego LGBT Resource Center Stev. 3030 • Maribel Gómez & Karla M. Zabaleta Hinojosa, UC San Diego LGBT Resource Center 2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1616

Performance: Mujer Mariposa: Voices of Womxn on the Periphery Stev. 3072 • Diana Cervera, Hilanderas Feminist Collective

Film Screening: ME & Mr. MAURI: Turning Poison into Medicine Stev. 3077 • T. Osa Hidalgo de la Riva, Independent Scholar/Producer, Eagle Bear Productions

Caucus Meetings: 3:45-5:00pm

• WINC Caucus Stev. 3008 • Graduate Student Caucus Stev. 3036 • Undergraduate Student Caucus Stev. 3038 • LBTQ Caucus Stev. 3072

Noche de Cultura, 6-9pm Student Center Ballroom A

Saturday July 22nd 2017 Stevenson Hall

Session 8: 8:30 -9:45am

Panel: Locating Interstitial Spaces: Exploring Decolonial Stev. 3036 Feminisms & Chicana Feminisms • Dolores Calderón Estrada, Western Washington University • Cinthya Saavedra, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley • Sylvia Mendoza, Palomar College • Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, CSU Sacramento • Monica González Ybarra, University of Colorado, Boulder

Workshop: The Muxerista Collective: Bridging Comunidad Stev. 3030 and Academia through DIY Creations • Briceida Hernandez-Toledo & Desiré Galvez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Muxerista Collective

Papers: Place, Race, Gender, and Food Stev. 3008 “How are We Going to Do All this Work?”: Women’s Labor and Reproductive Justice in Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga’s The Panza Monologues • Adrianna Santos, Texas A&M San Antonio Shutting Down for La Causa: Indiana Latinx Small Businesses’ Role in the Movement • Rocío León, Purdue University The Racial and Gender Politics of Tex-Mex Food Branding in San Antonio • Norma Cárdenas, Eastern Washington University Chicana Community Herstories: Voices of Resistance in Little Michoacán • Ana Angel Avendano, University of San Francisco

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1717 Panel: Geographies of Higher Education: Mapping the Stev. 3038 Invisibility of Chicanx Students Bodies and Lives • Larissa Mercado-López, Polet Campos-Melchor, & Selena Carbajal, CSU Fresno

Workshop: How to Publish in the MALCS Journal, Stev. 3044 Chicana/Latina Studies: Una Plática with the Editors • Sonya M. Alemán, Lilliana Saldaña, Gabriella Sánchez, & Alixandria Rowe, University of Texas at San Antonio

Performance/Film: Moving, Feeling, and Generating: Stev. 3072 The Davalos Dance Company as Site of Chicana Feminist Praxis • Karen Mary Davalos, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities • Catherine Marie Davalos, Saint Mary’s College of California

Art Exhibition: Indigenous Women & Girls: The Power to Be Yourself Stev. 3095 • Heather A. Hathaway Miranda, University of Illinois-Chicago

Session 9: 10:00-11:15am

Panel: Chicana Faculty Experiences in Higher Education: Stev. 3028 A Critical Testimonio • Elvia Ramírez, Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, Denise Fernández, & Yeimi López Lemus, CSU Sacramento

Papers: Abrazos del Pasado, Narratives & Gendered Testimonios Stev. 3008 Abrazos de Conocimiento Across the Generations: Chicana Mothering and Daughtering in the Borderlands • Irene Lara, San Diego State University Testimonios on US Rural Homelessness: Hilando Historias. Tejiendo Vida • Nancy Carvajal Medina, Washington State University

El Otro Lado de la Familia Vallejo • Karen R. Roybal, Colorado College Narratives from Latina Rebels in Group Homes • Joana Chávez, UC Riverside

Papers: Voice, Identity and Oral Histories Stev. 3072 Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Going beyond the Oral History • Julie Amparano, Arizona State University The Gendering of an “Elastic Supply of Labor”: Mexican Women Cotton Workers in the Salt River Valley, 1917-21 • Gloria Cuádraz, Arizona State University Developing Public History Projects through Collaboration with the Chicanx Community • Margarita García-Villa, San José State University Claiming Identity and Truth: Mexicans and Resisting Dominant Narratives in Rural Pennsylvania • Elena Pérez-Zetune, University of Texas at Austin

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1818 Panel: Muxerista Action Research and Praxis: A Muxerista Stev. 3038 Diaspora from Vegas to Minnesota • Anita Tijerina Revilla, Desiré Galvez, Briceida Hernández-Toledo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Muxerista Collective • Joanna Nuñez, University of Minnesota, & Emily Willis-Almaguer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Purple WINGS non-profit

Workshop: Self Preservation in Times of Oppression Stev. 3044 • Fabian Romero, University of Washington

Papers: Time, Space, Place, and Poetry Stev. 3036 Examining Consuelo Jiménez Underwood’s Fiber Art • Clara Roman-Odio, Kenyon College Navajo Lake: Erasured Histories of Rosa and Los Arboles, New Mexico • Jodi Chilson, Boise State University Love in the Time of Loss • Cathy Arellano, American River College

Plenary 3, 11:30am-12:45pm Person Theater

WINC Plenary: Water, Plantas, y Medicina: Lessons from the No DAPL Movement & the Continued Struggle for Land and Food Justice Adriana Betti, Executive Director, R.I.S.E. Melissa Moreno, Professor of Ethnic Studies, Woodland Community College Jenell Navarro: Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, CSU San Luis Obispo

Lunch Break, 12:45pm-2:00pm

Session 10: 2:15-3:30pm

Panel: Las Tortillas de Maíz: Digging up Nuestras Raíces as De/Coloniality Stev. 3072 • Adeli Ynostroza, Elizabeth Silva, Liliana Castrellón, University of Utah • Rita Urquijo Ruiz, Trinity University

Papers: Critical Race Theory, Education & Educación Stev. 3008 Evaluating a Middle School-Community Restorative Model: A Critical Race Theory Framework • Melissa Vargas, Binghamton University Compton Murals: Repainting a Latinx Visual Counter-narrative • Staphany Bravo García, CSU Los Angeles Guess What?! I’m Back!: Creating a More Authentic Literature Curriculum in Our Classrooms • Alma Llanas, Five Palms Elementary/South San Antonio ISD “Esta Chicanita Reads Banned Books”: Radical Storytelling for Subversive Children • Isabel Millán, Kansas State University

Panel: White Girls, Take Off Your Hoops: Institutionalized Invisibility Stev. 3038 of Women of Color at Pitzer College • Gabriela Ornelas, Alegría Martínez, Jacquelyn Aguilera, & Estefania Gallo-González, Pitzer College 2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 1919 Papers: The Decolonized Body & Health Stev. 3036 This Body Craving Healing: Toward a Decolonized Body • Victoria de los Santos Mycue, California Institute of Integral Studies Beneficial Effects of Ayahuasca and other Entheogens • Veronica Hernández, California Institute of Integral Studies Soy Gorda, y Que? – Decolonizing our Fat Bodies and Reclaiming New Mestiza Definitions of Health and Beauty • Jean Aguilar-Valdez, Portland State University • Dóra Lopez, CSU Northridge

Business Meeting 3:45-5:00pm Stevenson 3008

Tortuga Awards Banquet (off-site), 7:00pm – 12:00am Roseland Community Library 779 Sebastopol Rd • Santa Rosa, CA 95407

Roseland Community Library It was January 2015 when Library Director Brett Lear first met with the Community Development Council about the possibility of siting a library outlet in the temporary space in the former- Albertson’s parking lot. That initial meeting was followed by several rounds of community planning and visioning meetings, giving the residents of this vibrant neighborhood a voice in determining what their community needs.

In the ensuing months, we saw grassroots community support for a Roseland library building in the forms of fundraisers, festivals, and partnership development. It is in large part thanks to all these supporters that the Sonoma County Library is able to open a library space in Roseland at this time. Not ten months later, Library staff feverishly planned the final steps of getting the space ready to open to the public – putting books on shelves, planning ongoing events, and, of course, planning the big opening celebration for November 14, 2015. The Roseland Community Library shares its space with the Sonoma County Development Commission and the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Rosa

Directions to location from SSU campus: Exit main enrance, East Cotati Ave Take a left on E. Cotati Ave Left of Petaluma Hill Rd Left on Yolanda Ave, Keep straight, Hwy 101 N will be ahead. Use the right 2 lanes to take exit 488B to merge onto CA-12 W toward Sebastopol Take Dutton Ave exit (Exit 6) Take a left on Dutton Ave Take a Right-on Sebastopol Rd. Roseland Community Library will be on your right-hand side, at the stop light (turn in to that parking lot, you will see a Dollar Tree store, Library is next door)

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2020 MALCS Site Committee Plenary Panel Hidden Sonoma: Laboring Voices & Hidden Voices

Amelia Morán Ceja, President & Owner, Ceja Vineyards Born in Las Flores, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, where she learned the value of ingredients grown organically and prepared with care at the side of her grandmother, “Mamá Chepa.” She migrated to the United States in 1967 to join her father, a farmworker in Rutherford in the Napa Valley. On her first weekend, Amelia was in the vineyard, harvesting grapes alongside her family at Robert Mondavi’s famed Tokalon Vineyard where she met her future husband Pedro Ceja. Amelia fell in love with grape growing, and throughout her teenage and college years during school vacations, she continued working in the vineyards to gain deeper understanding about viticulture and winemaking. Her career in food and wine became clear while studying history and literature at UC San Diego, as she created authentic Mexican dinners paired with wine for her friends. In 1980, Amelia and Pedro were married, and in 1983 Amelia with Pedro, his brother Armando, and his parents Pablo and Juanita purchased their first property in Carneros in the Napa Valley. They planted their first grapes in the Carneros AVA in 1986, and Amelia, Pedro, Armando and his wife Martha founded Ceja Vineyards in 1999. Today the family owns 115 acres in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Amelia has become an impassioned advocate for the value and fair treatment of farm workers, following in the footsteps of her father’s work with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers labor union in the early 1970s. In 2016, Amelia received the Dolores Huerta Farmworker Justice Award for her successful advocacy for Worker Protection Standard on pesticides. Her leadership of Ceja Vineyards is also groundbreaking, as she became the first Mexican-American woman ever to be elected president of a winery in 1999. In 2005, the California Legislature recognized Amelia as “Woman of the Year” for “breaking the glass ceiling in a very competitive business.” Her family’s dedication to environmentally conscious business practices, sustainable agriculture and the gentle handling of the grapes in the cellar can be tasted in every sip of their legendary estate grown wines.

Leticia Romero Valentin, Executive Director, Corazón Healdsburg Originally from El Paso, Texas, Leticia has resided in Sonoma County for the past 38 years. Her mother is from Mexico and her father from Puerto Rico. Leticia considers herself to be Tex-Mex-a-Rican. While volunteering for the Committee for Immigrant Rights, Leticia heard the call to take action and joined the North Bay Organizing Project as chair of the board and completed their week-long leadership training program. Leticia Romero has been a passionate community organizer for 18 years. She has worked in education, health, parks and recreation conducting outreach and engagement strategies for public entities, hospital systems, city government and non-profit community organizations. She is currently the Executive Director for Corazon Healdsburg, a non-profit dedicated to bridging the racial and economic divide in Healdsburg. In her time, outside of work, Leticia leads an Aztec dance group and is an active participant in Native American sweat lodge. She has an adult daughter and two grandsons; Mateo (9 years) and Leandro (5 years).

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2121 Mariana G. Martinez, Coordinator, UndocuResource Center Born in Tijuana B.C., Mexico to a 19-year-old a single mother, Mariana lived with her grandmother for a small period of time and began her educational journey in a small town in the state of Jalisco. When Mariana and her mother migrated to the U.S., learning English became a challenge that she had to overcome. She had to learn quickly since she became the translator between her mother and the world. She excelled academically because she opted not to be an obstacle for her mother. Eventually Mariana graduated from Elsie Allen High School. At this time, Mariana learned that she did not have the proper documentation and that she could possibly not afford to go to college. Undaunted by the financial challenges and with the support of her family, she enrolled at Sonoma State University and eventually graduated with degrees in Spanish and Chicano and Latino Studies. Faculty mentors like Dr. Elizabeth C. Martinez, and now Community College President Lorraine Morales, encouraged her to think about graduate school and in May 2016 she was conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work examines the educational pipeline, from K to the doctorate, using a Community Cultural Wealth model, within a Critical Race Theory and Chicana Feminist Epistemological lens, to better understand contributing factors to Latinx student success, focusing particularly in Latina women. Findings suggests that family and culture are vital in the success of Latinas, not perfect by any means but having the support of their family in particular advocacy from their mother is critical. This work also aims to challenge our notions of access and success among Latinx students and other first generation low- income students. Currently, she is developing the newly established UndocuResource Center where she is the Coordinator. She also has other role such as Research Coordinator for the McNair Scholars Program and a Lecturer for the Chicano and Latino Studies Department at Sonoma State University. She serves as the faculty advisor for 2 groups on campus – UndocuScholars Coalition and Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). She is the first Latina to be elected as a community college trustee, second women of color and tenth woman, in the 100-year-old history of the college. Finally, she is the mother to a 3 –year old little human – Xoaquín.

MALCS 2017 Plenary: Nepantlan Warriors, Laboring Bodies, and Communal Practices

The consumption and marketing of our landscapes, communities, and bodies has been a concerning issue in our current political climate. Since colonial times, we have faced challenges that consistently demand our attention, our strength, and our voices. The dominant narratives that permeate our society—particularly following the recent presidential election—and the continued attempts to silence our bodies and our histories have resulted in new awakenings within our comunidades. We gather strength from the knowledge of our ancestors and we remain vigilant in protection of those most vulnerable to the attitudes and actions of hatred and exclusion that surround us. We work through contested terrains of historical accounts and narratives, continued violations of human rights, and the erasure of our systems of knowledge. This year’s MALCS PLENARY considers how both past and present tensions help us to engage in decolonial work and to build bridges of solidarity with our Chicana/Latina/indigenous/LGBTQ familias to stop the silencing. Our voices will be heard and we will serve as a bright beacon of hope and healing, asserting our presence and claiming our future. We continue to stand together in resistance, working toward a more equitable and just world.

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2222 Nepantlan Warriors: Women of the Nineteenth-Century Napa-Sonoma Valleys Who Resisted Linda Heidenreich is an Associate Professor of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University. Nepantla, in the pre-colonial world, referred to an in-between space but also movement, holding that rather than a great chain of being, or survival of the fittest, the world is a great cloth – woven through with energy. The most familiar application of the concept to contemporary thought and theory was made by Gloria Anzaldúa who mobilized it to draw attention to "that ambiguous, tentative, ever-changing space we inhabit." For Anzaldúa, Nepantla was a space (and spaces) that we, as queer mestiz@s, inhabit but, as was most evident in her latter works, it was/is also movement and change within that space. With this understanding of nepantla, I ask, what happens when we apply the lens of nepantla to the past of this region: the Napa-and-Sonoma Valleys? In the last epochal nepantlan shift of our Hemisphere, the shift to monopoly capital, how did women resist? In order address, this question I return to a body of research excavated earlier in my career, that of three women from the Napa and Sonoma Valleys: Rosalia Vallejo de Leese, Isadora Solano, and María Higuera Juárez, to chart some of their acts of resistance during the last epochal nepantlan shift in our hemisphere. I do this with the understanding that we now stand in the midst of a new shift, where it is critical that we map the motion-change in which we stand, in order to shape it and, to once again resist.

Writing the Goodlife: Chicana Feminist Thought and the Land Priscilla Solis Ybarra is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas. The 2017 MALCS Summer Institute theme of laboring bodies and silenced voices proves a very relevant topic to explore in the context of environmentalism. This talk will put the past and present voices of Chicana feminist writers at the center of contemporary concerns about climate change and the so-called Anthropocene. Putting these voices at the center of this discussion serves to reorient environmental thought in a fundamental way. Chicana feminist writers consider the laboring body a source of knowledge for our relationship to the land and to one another. I will offer a brief history of Chicana feminist thought in relation to the land, and I will end by offering a focused analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga.

Preservation of Customary and Traditional Laws Cynthia Aragon is an Attorney at Law in Albuquerque, New Mexico. American Indian and Pueblo communal practices, dating back to pre-western European contact, recognized the importance of women in society. Today, in some Tribes and Pueblos, the role of women differs significantly from the role of women prior to western European contact. Additionally, the existence of the LBGT person is noted as being an important figure in the creation stories of many Tribes and Pueblos. Such recognition, acknowledgment and acceptance of the woman and the LBGT person has changed. Today, many Tribe’s and Pueblo’s view of women and the LBGT person differ in comparison to the positive view of these individuals in their creation stories. This presentation focuses on the historical changes that have contributed to the change in acceptance of these individuals and on the influences of western European contact and practices, including religious practices that have impacted the acceptance and role of women and the LBGT person. Additionally, the existence of customary and/or traditional law (unwritten law), passed down by oral communication, faces modern challenges which impact its continued existence. The recognition and

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2323 acceptance of customary or traditional law is the foundation of modern tribal court systems that make them unique.

WINC Plenary: Water, Plantas, y Medicina: Lessons from the No DAPL Movement & the Continued Struggle for Land and Food Justice

"On the Front Line: Youth & Women Leading the Way in Standing Rock" Adriana Betti: R.I.S.E. Executive Director, Responsibility, Integrity, Strength, and Empowerment. The R.I.S.E. program is located on the Berkeley High School’s campus, serving low-income at-risk youth. She is committed to the health and empowerment of youth through a program of academic support combined with case management, to address the inequities and disparities for students of color in the Berkeley Unified School District. She is the founder and director of ‘Cuauhtli Mitotiani Mexica' – a Native Youth group which utilizes native cultural traditions to develop youth leadership through self-knowledge, cultural healing and presentations both local and international. Ms. Betti’s professional career includes working as a Math teacher trainer and an adjunct Mathematics Instructor for University of California Berkeley. She has taught secondary level math both in California and Massachusetts. She has been an active collaborator in development of local education policies including, Berkeley Unified School District’s 20/20 Vision. Her tireless commitment, dedication, and advocacy for youth health and empowerment has earned her great respect in the community as a powerful and effective indigenous Latina leader for the youth in Berkeley and beyond. 2014, VIP Woman of the Year, National Association of Professional Women 1988 B.A. Math and Computer Science, UC Berkeley 1989 M.ED. Math, English, and Science Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sovereignty for Land, Seeds, and Food on the Local Level Dr. Melissa Moreno, Professor of Ethnic Studies. My ancestors and family are from the meso American and Plains/Southwest regions. Given displacements and migrations, I grew up in Yokuts’ homeland, known to me as the San Joaquin Valley. I have a background in farm work, wilderness education, and cultural exhibitions. My passion is teaching and researching in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Multicultural Education, and Chicano/Latino Studies. I currently lead the Ethnic Studies Program at Woodland Community College, where I have led the Semillas y Culturas Conference focused on Indigenous Chicana/o foodways. I co-authored Speaking from the Heart: Herstories from Chicana, Latina, and Amerindian Women. While being faculty, I have been granted the Excellence and Education Award, a commendation for leadership and service from US Representative John Garamendi, the Chicano Latino Caucus, and the Yolo County Board of Supervisor for collaborating on the resolution of affirming Yolo County as a safe and welcoming community. I earned a bachelor in Sociology and Women Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I also earned a master’s and doctorate from the Education, Culture, and Society Department at the University of Utah.

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Listening to Our Bead Relatives: Indigenous Beadwork as Colonial Resistance Dr. Jenell Navarro is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University. Her is focused within the fields of Indigenous Studies and Hip-Hop Studies looking at the radical potential of conscious Indigenous hip-hop to engage in decolonial aesthetics and radical Indigenous thought. As an Indigenous feminist she is also very concerned about the current state of violence against Indigenous women and girls across North America and has been involved in utilizing Indigenous beadwork as an act of colonial resistance. She resides on the Central Coast of California with her partner, José, and their two fierce children, Nayeli and Joaquín.

TORTUGA AWARDS

The Tortuga Award originated in 2004 when Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) recognized the need to formally acknowledge the tremendous professional accomplishments and contributions of its members. Annually, this award is given to a MALCS member who has used her expertise, experience and commitment to support and advance the MALCS mission. The Tortuga Award is a token of appreciation for scholars and administrators have made a difference in their respective academic and administrative fields, cleared the educational path for many women of color and gender non-conforming peoples, and whose work established and enhanced MALCS. Past recipients include:

2016: Rosalía Solórzano Torres 2009: Karen Mary Davalos 2015: Dolores Delgado-Bernal 2008: Rusty Barcelo 2014: Josie Mendez-Negrete 2007: Brenda Child 2013: Norma E. Cantú 2006: Inés Talamantez 2012: Gloria Cuadraz 2005: Norma Alarcón

2011: Lupe Gallegos-Diaz 2004: Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell &

2010: No award presented Elisa L. Facio [inaugural recipients]

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2525 2017 Tortuga Award Recipient Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes, MALCS honors; for your strong mentorship of undergraduate, graduate students, and junior scholars, which has cultivated a growing body of Chicana/Latina and Indigenous scholars; and for your numerous scholar-activist accolades, especially your leadership role in Co- Editing Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (2014-2017). Most importantly, we honor your strong commitment to MALCS. Your service to the Executive and Coordinating Committee has enhanced the organization—in your work you embody and enact the principles held dear by MALCS, to be of service to and with community. Dr. Elenes, you exemplify the leadership called for by Tortuga Award recipients. We unreservedly agree with the MALCS member who nominated you for this award when she wrote: “Dr. C. Alejandra Elenes has been one of those MALCSistas who has greatly assisted in establishing MALCS as a safe and healthy space for our collective healing, growth and transformation”.

2017 MALCS Lifetime Achievement Award Olga Talamante became the first Executive Director of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF) in January 2003. The Chicana Latina Foundation’s mission is the Empowerment of Chicanas/Latinas through their Personal, Educational, and Professional Advancement. Ms. Talamante’s family migrated from Mexico to Gilroy, California in the early 1960’s where they worked in the farm fields for several years. She is widely respected for her community activism and leadership. During the mid- seventies, she became well known for her experience as a political prisoner in . As a result of a successful grass-roots campaign, she was released after spending 16 months in an Argentine prison. Since her return to the United States, she has remained active in the Chicano, Latin American solidarity, LGBTQ and progressive political movements. Among her various awards, she was recognized as one of the most influential in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the San Francisco Business Times. She received the Latino Heritage Community Award from the City of San Francisco, and in 2011 she received the prestigious OHTLI award from the Mexican Government. Four years ago she was honored to be a Community Grand Marshall for the San Francisco LGBTQ Pride Parade. Currently she serves on the Boards of El Concilio of San Mateo County; the Horizons Foundation and the Greenlining Institute. She recently received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and the Cesar Chavez Legacy Award in March of 2017.

2017 MALCS Service Award Raizes Collective, based in Santa Rosa, was established June 2015 to empower and mobilize community through the arts, culture and environmental education.

Our collective came together to offer artists and teachers of color the resources of space, programming, events, shows and activities to affect social and political change through art and community building. We believe this facilitates healing of the divisions within our diverse communities.

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2626 Noche de Cultura Sponsored by: Office of the Provost; School of Business & Economics Poets: Berenice Espinoza, Pamela Rivas, Author: Carla Trujillo

Movimiento Molcajete will present scenes from “BeYOU(-tiful)” in addition to a Flor y Canto ofrenda.

MM was created in the late 90's as a Two- Womxn Teatro Co., and currently is a community based arts multi-disciplinary training and performance vehicle and platform for arts education in community based learning. Providing creative opportunities for women and youth in projects that include live teatro, ritual, poetry, music, photography and art.

Andrea Porras / YaYa is a Cultura Cura Ninja with curator, producer, actor, creative writer and LifeDocumentor superpowers. They currently serve as a Grants Arts Specialist with The California Arts Council. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Dance with a minor in Cultural Anthropology, from CSU Sacramento. They have received many fellowships, some of which include: The California Speakers Office of Majority Services, UFW Headquarters, , Brown Sheep Project/ Guillermo Gomez, The Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution/ Ghana and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. Nicole C Limón is an actor, director, and playwright, and on the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance at CSU, Sacramento. She holds an MFA from UC Davis, and studied at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Canada and with the Steppenwolf Theatre School. She most recently directed "Welcome to Arroyo's" by Kristoffer Diaz for Teatro Espejo at California Stage, and is the author of "BeYOU(-tiful)" a play about women's journeys to self-acceptance and self-love, told through an indigenous perspective. Alejandra Fernandez García is a vocalist, actor, dancer, and writer. She holds a double B.A. from CSU Sacramento in Ethnic Studies and Sociology. She completed a semester long program in social movements and community organizing strategy in Mexico, specifically in Chiapas, Tlaxcala, and Mexico D.F. She currently works in the field of social work advocating for queer youth. She has played lead roles in productions with Teatro Espejo, Teatro Nagual, and Movimiento Molcajete. Currently she is the lead vocalist in Valo Boheme. Amy Reed is a musician, performance artist, vocalist, curator, painter and film maker. She is founder and international creative collaborator of MA series: A space to support creative work by womxn:

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2727 improvisers, composers, educators, and performing artists. Based in Sacramento, Ca at Gold Lion Arts. They are residents of Auburn CA and currently teach Visual Art and Cultura at Clarksburg High School, Reed holds a B.A. from CSU Sacramento, and honors from the Institute for Studio Studies in conjunction with Yale summer program, France. Sarah Flohr (Yale, CSUS) and Robert Reed (Yale) and Vladimir Tarasov.

Tortuga Award Banquet

Ballet Folklorico Quetzalén; DJ Nicole Novela Martinez

Vendors: Stevenson 2065 9am - 5pm

Special thank you to Movement Ink for your support and understanding in getting our MALCS SI bags ready on time Support: http://www.movement-ink.com

2017 MALC Summer Institute 2017 MALCS Summer Institute 2828 Donors & Sponsors

Office of Diversity and Inclusion Excellence * Katherine Maxwell * Monica Cornejo Robledo

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