LEAD SUMMIT IX ¡VIVA LA MUJER! Thursday, Santos Manuel Student Union California State University, March 29, 2018 San Bernardino 8AM - 3PM 909.537.7632 leadsummit.csusb.edu 2018 LEAD Summit | ¡VIVA LA MUJER! 1 Welcome! ¡BIENVENIDOS! Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to our ninth annual Latino Education and Advocacy Days Summit, and LEAD Week 2018. Our inaugural Latino Education and Advocacy Day at Cal State San Bernardino was a historical success in bringing needed atten- tion and discussion to critical issues in Latino education. As a direct result, the State of California had declared the last week of March as a statewide Week of Advocacy for Latino Education. Our LEAD network promotes “Working Together” – allowing participants to connect with each other and relevant leaders and advocates such as yourselves, to address how we can improve the educational access, learning outcomes, offerings, and resources for our communities, both here and abroad. “Netroots” is one way to describe our methods of awareness-raising, education, promotion, advocacy, activism, analysis, discussion, critique, dissemination, and commitment to the educational issues that impact Latinos. The word is a combination of “internet and grassroots” reflect- ing the technological innovations, participatory democracy, and cam- paign-oriented activities that set our techniques apart from other forms of education and advocacy. Our theme this year is ¡VIVA LA MUJER!, as although our communities’ and nation’s strengths continue to depend, to a large extent, on the positive educational outcomes of Latino students (in general), it is the educational attainment of Latinas (the female students in particular), that is essential to our well-being and success. Simply, LATINAS DEFINE THE FUTURE – as few factors better predict a student’s educational outcomes than the education of his or her mother. Thanks to our sponsors and community partners, LEAD Week this year includes the Binational Parent Leadership Institute Col- loquium, the Catholic Schools Expo, the Puente Project Student Leadership Forum, today’s LEAD Summit, and culminating with the César E. Chávez Memorial Breakfast. On account of the solid reputation we’ve amassed over the years, and partnering with numerous media outlets, LEAD Summit and Week reaches and engages nearly 300 million potential viewers, listeners, readers, attendees, displays, and social media impressions. We hope you enjoy your day and visit to California State University, San Bernardino. Thanks for raising your hand, stepping in, and getting involved – y que ¡VIVA LA MUJER! Sincerely, Welcome! ¡BIENVENIDOS! 2018 LEAD Summit | ¡VIVA LA MUJER! 1 Welcome! ¡BIENVENIDOS! 2 2018 LEAD Summit | ¡VIVA LA MUJER! Welcome! ¡BIENVENIDOS! 2018 LEAD Summit | ¡VIVA LA MUJER! 3 Welcome! ¡BIENVENIDOS! THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR BAKERSFIELD March 29, 2018 CHANNEL ISLANDS Dear Fellow Educators and Advocates: CHICO It is my distinct honor to join President Tomás Morales and the California State University, San Bernardino community of students, faculty and staff in welcoming DOMINGUEZ HILLS you to LEAD Summit IX. EAST BAY California’s universities, colleges and schools stand as beacons of enlightenment FRESNO for all members of America’s and California’s diverse communities. Today, there can be no doubt that California is the home of the American dream. We are forging FULLERTON the path forward for the rest of the nation. HUMBOLDT LEAD IX’s theme of VIVA LA MUJER: We Define the Future! is a perfect example. At the California State University, Latinas in faculty, staff and LONG BEACH presidential leadership are defining our present and future. They are forging the path forward for our extraordinary Latina students and alumnae. LOS ANGELES MARITIME ACADEMY In my State of the CSU remarks earlier this year, I told the story of two Cal State San Bernardino alumnae who, as children with their family, fled their home in MONTEREY BAY Colombia. After the family’s visas expired, the Carvajal sisters worried that they couldn’t attend college. Yet, because of Cal State San Bernardino’s privately- NORTHRIDGE funded scholarship for the highest achieving high school seniors, regardless of status, they earned their bachelor’s degrees with honors. Both have since earned POMONA advanced degrees, started a company in Los Angeles providing life-changing therapies to infants with disabilities and have now established a Dreamers SACRAMENTO scholarship at their alma mater. SAN BERNARDINO This story is unique to the Carvajal sisters, but many will recognize common elements of this story shared by students and alumni throughout California. These SAN DIEGO are the outstanding women and men we educate. These are the leaders who define SAN FRANCISCO California’s and America’s future. SAN JOSÉ Thank you for everything you are doing to make this future a reality. SAN LUIS OBISPO Sincerely, SAN MARCOS SONOMA Timothy P. White Chancellor STANISLAUS 401 GOLDEN SHORE • LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 90802-4210 • (562) 951-4700 • Fax (562) 951-4986 4 2018 LEAD Summit | ¡VIVA LA MUJER! Honorary Chairs / Madrinas de Honor 2018 Honorary Chairs /Madrinas de Honor In addition to serving on the city’s Charter Committee, Macías Harrison is a member of Kiwanis and is on the Board of the Valley Concert Association, the Brown Legacy, Crafton Hills Foundation, KVCR Education Foundation, San Bernardino Valley College Foundation and is currently a member of the League of Women Voters, the American Association of Univer- sity Women, and the Rialto Business and Professional Women. She serves on several advisory committees including the San Bernardino City Schools’ Making Hope Happen and is Treasur- er of the San Bernardino County School Board Association. As past President for the Community Foundation, she is active on the Foundation’s Youth Grant Makers Program. Marta Macías Brown was also a founding member of the first United Mexican American Student chapter, a precursor to the Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán, or MEChA, at Cali- fornia State University, San Bernardino. MEChA, which sought Chicano empowerment and unity through political action, sprang from the civil rights and Chicano Movement sweeping through Southern California and elsewhere around the coun- try during the 1960s. Gloria Macías Harrison and Marta Macías Brown (sisters), are San Bernardino natives (both graduates of SB High School), Macías Brown’s career includes local coordination of the civic advocates, and lifelong activists who among many Robert Kennedy campaign, and assistance organizing regional achievements and decades’ work in community rights, edu- interaction with farm workers’ advocate and civil rights activist cation and politics; are credited for helping create and grow Cesar Chavez. She taught at community college, served as the El Chicano newspaper. It was founded in 1968 under the a Community Education Specialist for the County of San auspices of the University of California, Riverside, by a group Bernardino, as a Director of Information and Referral Servic- of community leaders from San Bernardino and Riverside es, and a Student Affirmative Action Officer at the University counties. California, Riverside. She also served as Press Secretary and Administrative Assistant to the late Congressman George E. Marta was one of two first editors of the volunteer-driven Brown, Jr., whom she married in 1989. She is now active in the paper, which served as a voice and educational platform for preservation of her husband’s congressional papers on science the Chicano community. Articles focused on social justice, civil and technology, conservation, energy and civil rights through rights, school integration and other issues. It became part of the Brown Legacy Project at UCR. the Chicano Press Association, an organization of like news- papers and newsletters around the country, and served as an The Macías sisters are recipients of many local, state and organizing tool for voter registration, rallies, meetings and national awards, including an NAACP award for their contri- political campaigns. butions to the community through “El Chicano” newspaper. Both have served as governor appointees on California com- Gloria and her husband, Bill Harrison, were active in the missions and remain advocates for social justice, equity and Progressive Action League advocating for equal access to equality in education, the arts, women’s rights, and energy and education, housing, and employment opportunities. In 1969, conservation issues. El Chicano came under independent ownership with Marta as editor, Gloria as publisher, and Bill as its business manager. Next year (2018), El Chicano, which publishes weekly along with nine other community weeklies that make up the family publishing business, Inland Empire Community Newspa- pers, will turn 50, and is already the longest-running Chica- no-owned and -operated publication in state history!!! Gloria Macías Harrison served as President of Crafton Hills College for 12 years and as Vice President of Instruction for six. She taught for 20 years at San Bernardino Valley College and was Dean of Humanities for three. She retired in 2011 and was elected to the San Bernardino Community College Board of Trustees in 2012. 2018 LEAD Summit | ¡VIVA LA MUJER! 5 Past Honorary Chairs 2010 Inaugural LEAD Summit Madrina de Honor 2011 Inaugural Feria Educativa Padrinos de Honor Sylvia Mendez Graciano and Trini Gomez Sylvia Mendez is the oldest Mr. and Mrs. Graciano and daughter of Gonzalo Mendez, Trini Gomez graciously a Mexican immigrant, and accepted to serve as our Felicitas Mendez, a Puerto 2011 Honorary Chairs for the Rican, who fought so she and inaugural LEAD Feria Educati- her brothers could have equal va. They will be affectionately education through the case of known as our event’s “padri- Mendez et al v. Westminster no y madrina de honor”. et al. Sylvia continues with the Married for more than 30 legacy left by her parents to years, Graciano and Trini are campaign for education. Sylvia very well known, have deep Mendez worked for 33 years roots, and are highly active as a nurse at the USC Medical in and across our region- Center in Los Angeles.