Guest speaker: Artist Simon Silva.

Alejandra Campoverdi is a nationally recognized women’s health advocate and former White House aide to President Obama. She is the author of the forthcoming book FIRST GEN and she produced and appeared in the groundbreaking PBS documentary Inheritance. In partnership with: FirstGen at Pitzer College, 1GEN at Claremont McKenna College, FirstGen at Scripps College, FLI Scholars at Pomona College, Scripps Communities of Resources & Empowerment (SCORE), Civility, Access, Resources, and Expression (CARE) Center at Claremont McKenna College, Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS) at Pitzer College, Office of Institutional Diversity at Harvey Mudd College This is a ticketed event. ALEJANDRA [...]

Dr. Michelle Téllez is an Associate Professor in the department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her public and academic scholarship focuses on transnational community formations, mothering, and gendered migration along the U.S./Mexico border. She has a long history in grassroots organizing projects, digital media and community-based arts and performance. This talk offers an alternative mapping and framing of the U.S./Mexico border through the documentation and analysis of feminist projects in the borderlands. I use these examples to ask how we can imagine the borderlands as a space of feminist resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building, one [...]