Gente and Health

Thank you for listening to Season 2 of Gente & Health! California Voters – Go vote June 7, 2022! Tune in next season coming Fall 2022.

In this episode, we learn more about Professor Luz Maria de La Torre, Continuing lecturer at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American Institute, UCLA. She is a Kichwa (Quechua) Indigenous woman from Ecuador and one of the few Ecuadorian Intellectuals working in academia in the U.S.

In this episode, listen to the March 31st Webinar: "Latina Women in the U.S. Physician Workforce", joining CESLAC, in partnership with Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA), as they hosted an expert panel webinar on the findings of the Latina Women in the U.S. Physician Workforce: Opportunities in the Pursuit of Health Equity article by Dra. Yohualli Anaya Balderas-Medina, published in Academic Medicine.

Join us in this episode as we explore the daily life of Latinxs in the 19th century and Dr. Vanessa Ovalle Perez’s in-depth look at two Latina poets–Amelia Denis and Carlota Gutierrez.

In this episode, CESLAC Research Assistant Elías Rodríguez takes us to a Mariachi de Uclatlán rehearsal to get an inside look as what boleros are and how the first collegiate mariachi in the world approaches learning and performing our favorite love songs.

Features a Mariachi de Uclatlán rehearsal recording of the bolero "Sin Ti" (Songwriter: Pepe Guizar).

In this episode, we invite co-founders of UndocuMEDPEP, Angeles Almaraz and Itzetl Avila, to reflect and share where they are in their pre-health journey, how they navigated it, and provide resources that may help undocumented students to navigate their own pre-health journey.

As we have stated many times, there are 60 million different ways of being Latino, so there are just and many different ways to celebrate in our communities. There is no one right way, and not celebrating certain things does not make you any less Latino.

In this episode, we highlight and uplift some of these beautiful traditions that we hold dear and will discuss how to continue these traditions and keep them alive for the younger generations in our families.

When was the First Thanksgiving? And who was really in attendance?

Join us as we look back at the first Thanksgiving, an expedition from what we know as today’s Mexico City to the American Southwest, 20 years before Pilgrims traveled across the Atlantic in 1621.

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies and Project Director at the UCLA Labor Center. We delve into the topic of indigeneity—specifically, indigenous identity and what it means on opposite sides of the political border between the United States and Mexico.

To learn more about this topic, please read Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States, ed. Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado.

In our season 2 premiere, we dive into California's past, and look at the Spanish language newspapers from 100 years ago, highlighting the values and celebrations of Central American Independence.