Curriculum Vitae

Miguel Juárez, MLS, MA, Doctoral Candidate [email protected] http://migueljuarezsoha.wixsite.com/mi-sitio

Education

September 2009 to present, Doctoral Candidate in History, (U.S. History, Borderlands, Transnational Urban History/Digital Humanities). Department of History, Liberal Arts, 500 West University, the University of at El Paso, 79968, anticipated date of completion: Fall 2017. Dissertation title: “From Concordia to Lincoln Park and the Politics of Highway Building in El Paso, Texas,” Dr. Paul Edison, Dissertation Chair.

Coursework

U.S. History HIST 5304: Studies in Public History HIST 5353: Literature and Methods in U.S. History HIST 5370: Seminar in United States History HIST 5320: Readings in U.S. History to 1864 HIST 5305: Studies in United States History: Chicano/a Historiography HIST 5370: Mexican American-Chicana/o History HIST 5305: Graduate Studies in U.S. History, Civil Rights and Black Power

Borderlands History HIST 5390: Internship in Public History: The Mexican Revolution HIST 5351: Literature and Methods in Borderlands History HIST 5312: Graduate Studies in Borderlands History HIST 5374: Graduate Seminar in Border History

Urban History/Digital Humanities HIST 5345: Independent Reading: Urban History HIST 5345: Independent Reading: Historic GIS Sociology/Anthropology 3321: Intro to GIS in the Social Sciences

World History HIST 5354: Literature and Methods of Transnational/World History HIST 5306: Studies in World History: Imperialism

Teaching, Writing, Dissertation HIST 6320: History, Teaching and Learning HIST 6300: Special Topics in Historiography ENGLISH 5316: Graduate Writing Workshop HIST 6301: Dissertation Preparation HIST 6399: Dissertation

1 2012, Master of Arts in Border History (MA), Department of History, Liberal Arts, 500 West University, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968. Internships for the Mexican Revolution exhibit at the and the Museo Urbano.

1998, Master of Arts in Library Science (MLS), State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14228.

1998, Public Librarian Certificate, Library Science Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14228.

1989-92, Completed 46 graduate credits towards Master of Arts, (MA) Arts Administration at California State University at Domínguez Hills, Carson, Calif., 1000 E Victoria St, Carson, CA, 90747.

1992, Completed 5 graduate credits in Museum Studies and Arts Studio Practice at California State University at Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840.

Teaching Experience

Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University, Liberal Arts Building, Room 320, El Paso, Texas 79968.

Summer Session II, July 11 - August 4, 2017, Lecturer, U.S. History Since 1865, Department of History.

August 2016 – May 2017, Graduate Teaching Assistant, UTEP History Tutoring Center, Supervisor: Dr. Ignacio Martínez, Department of History, (915) 747-7054, [email protected]

August 2015 – May 2016, Graduate Teaching Assistant H-Borderlands Student Editor, Supervisor, Dr. Jeffrey P. Shepherd, UTEP Department of History, (915) 747-6805, [email protected]

January – May 2012, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Supervisor: Dr. Manuel Ramírez, UTEP Department of History, (915) 747-7062, [email protected]

August 2011 – December 2011, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Supervisor, Diana Martínez, MA, UTEP Department of History, Humanities, (915) 747-7060, [email protected]

January 2011 – May 2011, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Supervisor, Dr. Manuel Ramírez, UTEP Department of History, (915) 747-7062, [email protected]

August 2010 – December 2010, Supervisor, Dr. Gary Kieffner, UTEP Department of History, Gary (915) 747-7060, [email protected]

August 2009 – May 2010, Teaching Assistant, H-Borderlands Student Editor, Supervisor, Dr. Jeffrey Shepherd, UTEP Department of History, (915) 747-6805, [email protected]

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Fall 1995: Visiting Instructor, Art History, through the El Paso Community College’s International Studies Program (in Spanish), Technological Institute and Superior Studies of Monterrey/Instituto Tecnólogico y De Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Juárez, .

Publications

Books, Chapbooks, Exhibition Catalogs

January 2016, Published book, with Rebecca Hankins, co-editor, Where Are All the Librarians of Color: The Experiences of People of Color in Academia (Library Juice Press).

Juárez, M., 2004, Alla en El Rancho Grande: The Art and Life of Alfed J. Quiroz: A Contemporary American Narrative Painter, University of Arizona Library, Special Collections.

Juárez, M., 1997, Published book, Colors on Desert Walls: The Murals of El Paso (Bilingual book, Texas Western Press, the University of Texas at El Paso). Colors on Desert Walls received a Border Regional Library Association Southwest Book Award, March 7, 1998.

Juárez, M., 1994, Published chapbook: El Paso Alternative: A micro-oral history of the alternative arts in El Paso. Published in conjunction with Art Leadership Class II, a project under the El Paso Chamber of Commerce.

Juárez, M., 1991, Downey Museum Exhibit Catalog for Contemporary Visions of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Downey Museum of Art, November 14-December 29, 1001, Downey, Calif.

Refereed Publications

Juárez, M., Forthcoming Essay, “Culture, Art and History: Its Collection, Presentation, Teaching and Archiving,” in the Special 20th Anniversary Issue of CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside for Arts & Culture Workers, http://culturework.uoregon.edu/.

Juárez, M., March 2014, Essay, “María Teresa Márquez and CHICLE: The First Chicana/o Electronic Mailing List,” in Mujeres Talk Blog: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/mujerestalk/2014/03/11/on-chicle-and-teresa-marquez/

Juárez, M., Fall 2010, Article: “Art in Special Collections: Latino and African American Fine Art and Photography Collections in Academic Institutions,” (Arts Documentation, the Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America), 31-36, https://www.academia.edu/6354240/Hankins- Juarez

Juárez, M., 2001, Article, "Mentoring con Ganas: Mentoring from the Heart," in Castillo-Speed, Lillian and REFORMA (Association), National Conference Publications Committee, The Power of Language/El Poder de la Palabra: Selected Papers from the Second REFORMA National Conference. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 71-78.

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Juárez, M., 2000, Article, “Margarita ‘Mago’ Orona Gandara (b. 1929): Frontera Muralist/Artist” in Lindenmeyer, Kriste. Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: American Women's History (The Human Tradition in America Series, No. 6), Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2000, 261-272.

Juárez, M., November 1997, Article, “The Invisible Careers for Latinos: Public History and Museum Studies,” in CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside for Arts and Cultural Workers, Vol. 1, No. 3, Nov. 1997. Institute for Community Arts Studies Arts and Administration Program, University of Oregon, http://aad.uoregon.edu/culturework/culturework3.html

Published Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Essays

Juárez, M., Sunday, December 10, 2016, Guest column, “Juarez: Demolish convention center complex for arena,” , http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/opinion/2016/12/10/jurez-demolish-convention-center- complex-arena/95290072/

Juárez, M., Editorial, ‘Contra la demolición del ‘Pequeño Durango’ Jueves 20 de Octubre 2016, El Diario de El Paso, http://diario.mx/El_Paso/2016-10-19_51f54399/contra-la-demolicion-del- pequeno-durango/

Juárez, M., August 2, 2016, online article, “Artspace El Paso Lofts: A Turning Point for the Creative Community,” Fusion Magazine. http://thefusionmag.com/artspace-el-paso-lofts-a-turning-point-for-the-creative-community/

Juárez, M., July 30, 2016, online article, “Why Did the Workers at Johnson Controls’ Ciudad Juarez Plants Walk Off the Job?” in Latino Rebels: http://www.latinorebels.com/2016/07/30/the-workers-at-johnson-controls-in-cd-juarez/

Juárez, M., with Robb Chávez, June 23, 2016, online article, “An Invisible Man in American Society: Interview with Willie Varela,” Fusion Magazine: http://thefusionmag.com/an-invisible- man-in-american-society-interview-with-artist-and-filmmaker-willie-varela-by-miguel-juarez- with-robb-chavez/

Juárez, M., and N. Silva, May 25, 2016, online article, “Interview with Lise Bjørne Linnert for Desconocida Unknown Ukjent, an Art Project on the Juárez Femicides, Interviewed by Miguel Juárez and Nicolas Silva Salinas, Fusion Magazine. http://thefusionmag.com/interview-with-lise-bjorne-linnert-for-desconocida-unknown-ukjent- an-art-project-on-the-juarez-femicides/

Juárez, M., April 15, 2016, online article: “Keeping Los Lagartos at San Jacinto Plaza,” Fusion Magazine. http://thefusionmag.com/keeping-los-lagartos-at-san-jacinto-plaza/

Juárez, M., April 8, 2016, online article: “History in the Making: The Latinx Conference at Brown University,” Latino Rebels: http://www.latinorebels.com/2016/04/08/history-in-the-making- the-latinx-conference-at-brown-university/

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Juárez, M., March 15, 2016, online and print article and photographs: “KISS LIVE: At the El Paso County Coliseum – August 15, 1976,” 19-21, Fusion Magazine #89. http://thefusionmag.com/kiss-live-at-el-paso-1976/

Juárez, M., January 2016, Chapter, “Making It Work in Academic Libraries,” Where Are All the Librarians of Color: the Experiences of People of Color in Academia (Library Juice Press), https://www.academia.edu/21902219/Making_Diversity_Work_in_Academic_Libraries

Juárez, M., and S. Terrazas, January 20, 2016, online article, “Maquiladora Workers Protest in Pursuit of Just Wages and an Independent Union in Juárez,” co-authored with Attorney Susana Prieto Terrazas, Latino Rebels: http://www.latinorebels.com/2016/01/20/maquiladora- workers-protest-in-pursuit-of-just-wages-and-an-independent-union-in-juarez/

Juárez, M., May 25, 2012, Essay, “Writer looks at the behind the scenes of TV congressional debate,” Rio Grande Digital.com, http://www.riograndedigital.com/2012/05/25/miguel_juarez/

Juárez, M., January 13, 2012, Essay, “Why Save Lincoln Center: For Our Gente,” Rio Grande Digital.com, http://www.riograndedigital.com/2012/01/13/why-save-lincoln-center-for-our- gente/

Juárez, M., January 8, 2012, Guest column, “Get involved in city redistricting process,” El Paso Times (Texas), Opinion section, 7B.

Juárez, M., January 8, 2012, Guest column, “Get Involved in City Redistricting Process,” in Rio Grande Digital.com, http://www.riograndedigital.com/2012/01/08/get-involved-in-el-paso- redistricting-process/

Juárez, M., April 2010, Essay, “Lincoln Park, El Paso, Texas, El Corazón de El Paso” El Corazón de El Paso, Lincoln Park Conservation Committee, 4-5.

Juárez, M., February 6-28, 2010, Exhibit Essay, “Art during the Chicano Movement in El Paso,” for exhibit “Chicano Power! The Legacy of the Chicano Movement in El Paso,” Museo Mayachen, La Mujer Obrera.

Online Lectures/Content

March 3, 2017, Presentation, “Diversity Across Arts & Cultural Practice,” via Blue Jeans Network, opening forum for the Arts and Administration Program (AAP) and the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy (CCACP) at the University of Oregon, as part of CultureWork’s 20th Year Anniversary.

April 21, 2016, Co-presenter (with Rebecca Hankins) for the San Jose State University iSchool’s Colloquium on April 21, 2016 for Dr. Kristen Rebmann, Associate Professor, in a session titled “Do We Need a Climate Change? Where Diversity Meets the Academic Library and Archives Environment,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iFC6zm1NA

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Presentations:

April 22, 2017, Presenter, panel on “La Manda Fronteriza,” New Mexico Press Women’s Conference, Media Literacy in a Post-Truth Society, Mesilla, New Mexico. La Manda Fronteriza—Standing Firm On The Border—Frontera Truth Telling: Noted author and screenwriter Denise Chávez will moderate this panel of writers, historians, educators, community activists, and a former librarian, who will look at the impact of truth telling on the U.S./México Border and its ramifications for our greater community.

October 14, 2016, Paper, “Oral History, Cultural Memory and Highway Building: the Lincoln Park Community in El Paso, Texas,” as part of the session titled: “From the Field: Exploring Memory and Group Identity Shaped by Conflict and Combat,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California.

October 13, 2016, introductory comments for book presentation of Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Dr. Selfa A. Chew, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA.

May 27, 2016, Presentation, “Murals as Forums and Spaces of Protest and Advocacy," as part of the “Art as Protest Panel,” Café Mayapan, El Paso, Texas.

April 7 - 10, 2016, Presentation, “The Lincoln Park Community: A Disappeared Community Reclaimed via Social Media,” for panel “Digital Urban History and Community Engagement,” at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) 2016 Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, Chair and Commentator: Dr. Colin Gordon, University of Iowa.

November 15, 2015, Moderator, Commentator, second book presentation of Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Dr. Selfa A. Chew, Café Mayapan, 2000 Texas Street, El Paso, Texas.

November 7, 2015, Panel Moderator (Bilingual-English, Spanish), Panel 3, “Movement, Migration, and the State,” panel, part of 2015 Borderlands History Conference, “The State in/of Borderlands History,” Hilton Garden Inn. Sponsored by the UTEP Department of History.

November 3, 2015, Moderator, Commentator, book presentation of Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Dr. Selfa A. Chew, Blumberg Auditorium, Main Library, University of Texas at El Paso.

October 21-24, 2015, Paper, “The 1972 Raza Unida Party Convention,” “The Chicano/a Movement as Western History: Emerging Scholars,” at the Western History Association Conference (WHA), Portland, Oregon.

6 April 1-2, 2015, Two Papers in Two Sessions, Iota, Iota, Iota, The Naken Truth: Women of Character, Courage and Commitment, 5th Annual Women’s History Month Conference, the University of Texas at El Paso, Paper, “Margarita “Mago” Orona, Frontera Muralist/Artist,” and Paper: “Belinda Renteria, Pioneer El Paso LGBT Publisher and Businesswoman.”

October 26-28, 2012, Presentation, “Lincoln Park and the Saipan-Ledo Neighborhoods in the Creation of El Paso's Chicano Park, El Corazón del Pueblo," part of panel titled “Redevelop/Resist: Dilemmas of Renewal in Ethnic Neighborhoods,” at the Sixth Biennial Urban History Association Conference, Columbia University, New York City.

October 24, 2012, Presentation: “Lincoln Park, El Paso's Chicano Park: El Corazón del Pueblo,” hosted by the UNT World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Speakers Committee, as part of their new In House Series, Language Arts Building, Room 109, 3:30-4:30 p.m., University of North Texas campus.

October 18, 2012, Honored Guest Speaker, “Developing Latino/a Archives in North Texas,” at the invitation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dallas Office as part of their Annual National Hispanic Heritage Celebration Luncheon, 4040 North Central Expressway, Suite 900, Dallas, TX 75204.

October 13-16, 2011, Presentation, “Eminent Domain in El Paso, Texas: 1880-1920,” at the Western Historical Association Conference in Oakland, CA, as part of the panel titled, “Race and Place: Indigenous, Japanese and Mexican Racialization at Three Geographic/Symbolic Boundaries,” moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Haas.

April 2, 2011, Presentation: “Rough Cut: Challenges of Doing Oral History for Educational Television,” Southwest Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Japanese Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

March 3-5, 2011, Presentation: “Using Historic GIS as a Tool to Analyze the Past in El Paso,” Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Annual Meeting, El Paso, Texas.

April 14-18, 2010, Paper presentation, “Mapping History and Culture in El Paso's Segundo Barrio,” part of the Historical GIS and Local Analysis II: The Americas and Europe panel, at the 2010 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

September 23, 2008, Paper presentation, “Field notes from Siempre: Hispanics at Texas A&M, celebrating 130 Years,” invited by the Professional Hispanic Network (PHN) for Hispanic Heritage Month, MSC Forsyth Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

March 19-22, 2008, Paper presentation, “The Making of the Siempre Exhibit at Texas A&M,” Libraries at the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies (NACCS) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.

7 April 12-14, 2007, Presentation, “La Vida Dura (the Hard Life): Chicano/a Poetry in El Chuco, Tejas (El Paso, Texas), Aztlán,” The Poetry of the Americas Symposium, sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M, College Station.

March 1-3, 2007, Session 30, Convenor and Panel member, “Cultura & Climate: Raza Faculty in Texas A&M Schools,” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS-FOCO) Tejas Regional Conference, University of North Texas.

March 1-3, 2007, Session 36, Convenor and panel member, “Una Plática Sobre Memoria, Historia y Cultura: Chicano(a)/Latino(a)/Mexican Archives at Texas Universities,” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS-FOCO) - Tejas Regional Conference, University of North Texas.

March 8-10, 2007, Paper presentation, “Organizing ¡Siempre! the Hispanics at Texas A&M Exhibit,” Texas State Historical Association 111th Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.

February 16-17, 2007, Paper presentation, “¡Siempre! the Hispanics at Texas A&M Exhibit,” East Texas Historical Association, Beaumont, TX.

Video Series

M. Juárez, Co-producer, 1997, Public Television Series for El Paso Community College Television (publisher), “Frontera Artists, Mexican and Chicano Artists in El Paso, Texas.” Co-produced (with Gabriel Gaytán) program interviewing local and regional artists that included: L.A. Chicano Artist Gilbert Lujan, Luis Jimenez Jr., Paul Dean Daniggelis, José Cisneros, Lupe Casillas Lowenberg, Carlos Callejo, Teresa J.G. Chávez, Mario Colin, Rigoberto de la Mora, Gaspar Enriquez, Carlos Florés, Mago Orona Gandara, Judith C. García, Gabriel Gaytán, Ernesto P. Martínez, Gloria Osuna Perez, and Filmmaker Willie Varela. 10 videodiscs (approximately 530 min.), sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Editorships

May 2017-, Editorial Board member for Latinx Talk, formerly Mujerestalk.com

2012 to 2014, Co-editor for Library Juice Series: Critical Multiculturalism and Librarianship, Library Juice Press, an imprint of Litwin Books, LLC specializing in theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science: http://libraryjuicepress.com/index.php

April-September 2008, Editorial member, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Chicano Archives Series.

April 2006-2007, Online editor/compiler/introduction to essays for exhibit: ¡Siempre! Hispanics at Texas A&M, Celebrating 130 Years, http://siempre.tamu.edu/.

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March 2000-2001, Update Column Editor, The Art Libraries Society of North America, Academic Libraries Section.

Published Book Reviews

Juárez, M., July 4, 2010, Boy on the Border by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, Sweet Earth Flying Press, L.L.C., El Paso Times, 2F.

Juárez, M., Spring/Summer, 2007, Review of book Gronk by Max Benavidez in REFORMA Newsletter, April Volume 25, Number 1 /2, p. 18.

Juárez, M., Fall 2004, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteen-Century Mexico by Llona Katzew in Art Documentation, the Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Juárez, M., July 2004, Chicano Art for Our Millennium, in REFORMA, The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking Newsletter, submitted for publication.

Juárez, M., December 2002, Advanced book review, The 21st Century Art Librarian, Edited by Terrie L. Wilson, for the Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York. Comments appear on the cover and preliminary pages of the monograph.

Juárez, M., Spring 2002, ¿Se elige? 300 Preguntas y respuestas sobre la homosexualidad by Eric Marcus, REFORMA Newsletter, The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking Newsletter, Vol. 21, No. 1, 18.

Blog Articles

Borderlands History: http://borderlandshistory.org/

Juárez, M., October 26, 2016, “CFP: American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Annual Meeting in Austin, TX,” September 6-9, 2017.

Juárez, M., October 26, 2016, “Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Mario T. García, October 26, 2016.”

Juárez, M., November 16, 2015, “Organizing the Oscar R. Castillo: Documenting Chicano Life and Activism Exhibit at the 55th Annual Western History Association Conference in Portland, Oregon, http://borderlandshistory.org/2015/11/16/organizing-the-oscar-r-castillo- documenting-chicano-life-and-activism-exhibit-at-the-55th-annual-western-history-association- conference-in-portland-or/

9 Dos Pueblos, Immigration and Immigration Reform Web site: dospueblos.org Juárez, M., August 18, 2014, “The Border Convoy by the Numbers.” Juárez, M., August 12, 2014, “Welcome: Call to Arms for Immigration and Immigration Reform.”

Academic and Professional Service

November 2014-March 2015, Conference Committee Member (Program Committee), Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) Annual Meeting, Del Mar, Calif.

January-March 2011, Conference Committee Member, Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), Annual Meeting at the Japanese Cultural Arts Center, April 1-3.

July 2008 to March 2009, Program Committee Chair, 2009 SOHA Annual Meeting, Co- sponsored by USC Libraries/Special Collections/"LA As Subject," Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California and California African American Museum, “New Destinations in Oral History,” March 27-29, http://www.southwestoralhistory.org/docs/SOHA2009.pdf

Honors/Awards

2016 § Selected for Dissertation Studio III, December 2016, UTEP Graduate School. § Selected for Dissertation Studio II, August 2016, UTEP Graduate School. § Recipient, Dodson Research Grant from the UTEP Graduate School. § Recipient, Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) mini-grant to transcribe interviews for dissertation. § Recipient, Organization of American Historians (OAH) President’s Travel Fund Award to attend and present at the annual conference in Providence, RI. 2015 § Recipient, UTEP Graduate School Travel Grant to attendance at 2016 Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Conference. § Recipient, Department of History Travel Grant, September, to support attendance at Western History Association (WHA) Annual Conference. § Recipient, Dodson Travel Funds awarded by the Office of the Dean of Liberal Arts, December, to support attendance at Western History Association Annual Conference. § Recipient, scholarship to attend Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) Annual Meeting, Del Mar, Calif. awarded by the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA). 2012 § Nominee: 2012 Student Marshal Award, University of Texas at El Paso. § Speaker, History of Lincoln Park at Lincoln Park Day, September 23, 2012, El Paso, Texas.

10 Professional Affiliations

2016-2017, Student Member, Oral History Association (OHA) 2015-2016, Graduate student member, Organization of American Historians (OAH) 2014-2016, Graduate student member, American Studies Association (ASA) 2012-2015, Graduate student member, Urban History Association (UHA) 2008-, Lifetime Member, Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) 2012-2013, Individual Member, Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2011-2016, Graduate Student Member, Western History Association (WHA) 2010-2012, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) 2010-2015, Graduate Student Member, National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies (NACCS) 2009-2010, Student Member, Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Community Service Activities

October 2016 to April 2017, Artspace Artist Selection Committee (ASC) member, El Paso, Texas, http://www.artspace.org/.

2010-Present, Member, Raza Organize and Chicana/o History Project, El Paso, Texas.

Summer 2016-present, UTEP Graduate Student Association.

November 13, 2015, “District Read to Students Program,” Ambrosio Guillen Middle School, El Paso Independent School District, El Paso, Texas.

October 1, 2015, Keynote speaker, Hispanic Heritage, Bassett Middle School, El Paso, Texas.

December 2014-March 2015, Program committee member and publicity chair for Southwest Oral History Association Conference in Del Mar, Calif., held on March 19-21, 2015.

January 2014, Contributor for “ Murals,” guide created by Coronado High School students, published by the El Paso Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. http://visitelpaso.com/visitors/to_do/7-excursions/sections/45-walking-tours/places/1073- segundo-barrio-murals

December 2012 to 2013, Member, Dallas Mexican-American Historical League (DMAHL), Member of the fundraising committee under Dr. Catalina Garcia, board member.

Spring 2012, Judge, History Day, Department of History, the University of Texas at El Paso.

January 2010-December 2012, President, Friends of the (Main).

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