by cnaguila | Dec 1, 2020 | From Current and Past Students and Faculty
As a first-generation Chicano on my father’s side and second on my mother’s side, I was raised between two cultures. My parents met in Mexico City and when they came over to the states, my father began his journey employed as a gardener while he and my mother lived...
by cnaguila | Dec 1, 2020 | From Current and Past Students and Faculty
I came from a nice middle-class family. In 1969 we moved into a predominantly white neighborhood. We were one of two LatinX families on our street. At 10 years old everything changed when my mother died. My only sibling (my sister) moved out 2 years later, and my...
