Latine Stories

In this episode, I talk to President Salvador Héctor Ochoa of Texas A&M University—San Antonio. We talk about his experience growing in the Rio Grande Valley and his journey into higher education.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Jennifer Nájera about her journey through higher education and her scholarship on undocumented student activism. She also discusses her ongoing collaborative work on mapping Chicana/Mexicana contributions of women’s organizing in South Texas and Southern Arizona.

In this episode, I talk to Anel Flores, a South Texas writer, about her work and inspiration for writing.

In this episode, I discuss Spanish teaching and learning with professor Adam Schwartz and his new book Spanish so White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of ‘Foreign’ Language Education, published in 2023. This book is now available as audiobook, narrated by Schwartz!

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Regina Mills, Assistant Professor of Latinx and U.S. Multi-ethnic Literature in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. We discuss her first monograph, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades.

In this podcast, Lidia Flores talks about Daca and undocumented people's journey through higher education.

In this episode, I talk to Lori Alvarez about her pregnancy journey and her work supporting other women to get the resources and help they need.

We listen as our narrators talk about their hopes and dreams for the future of southern Ohio communities.

Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio shares stories of Latine residents in southern Ohio and draws on the digital bilingual oral history archival collection of Latine folklife at the Center for Public History at Shawnee State University. 

Learn more and access episode notes at //www.southernohiofolklife.org/las-culturas-del-sur-de-ohio

In this episode, student Janelle Casarez interviews her mother, an educator, about her own experience of Spanish language learning and her own family's generational loss due to language discrimination in the schools.

In this episode, I talk to Hector Garza, a doctoral candidate, flourishing independent artist and a dedicated educator in San Antonio for the last 20 years.