Today's guest host is Lorena Chambers, PhD, CEO of Chambers Lopez Strategies LLC. Lorena is the only Latina — and one of only two women — to have produced broadcast commercials for a U.S. presidential campaign. In 2020, she was the media strategist for People For the American Way’s Latinos Vote campaign and the Latina strategist for Senate Majority PAC (SMP) to elect John Hickenlooper as the new U.S. Senator from Colorado. Dr. Chambers is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Lorena is first joined by Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Curator of Latinx History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

The two discuss “¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues,” a bilingual exhibition that Salazar-Porzio is curator of at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. (The exhibition will also be traveling to 15 different cities through 2025)

You can find out more about the exhibit here: https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/pleibol-slides-smithsonian-summer-2021

During the second half of the show, Lorena is joined by George J. Sanchez, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, and History at the University of Southern California.

They talk about his new book, "Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy."

It's described as "the radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood." The book is available for purchase here: https://bookshop.org/books/boyle-heights-59-how-a-los-angeles-neighborhood-became-the-future-of-american-democracy/9780520237070

You can find out more about guest host Lorena Chambers at her website: www.chamberslopez.com