Brave New Voices in Houston! & Mexican Origin Foods, Foodways & Social Movements. Great poetry and powerful research about our community.
Guests: Tony Diaz, El LIbrotraficante interviews, In-studio- Cristy Johnston Limón, Tish Jones, and Brandon Santiago Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival taking place in Houston. http://bnv18.youthspeaks.org/ And Dr. Devon Peña discussing his book Mexican Origin Foods, Foodways & Social Movements: Decolonial perspectives
Bios: CRISTY JOHNSTON LIMÓN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-Committed to the absolute power the arts as a catalyst for social change, Cristy joined Youth Speaks in January of 2018.
A native of San Francisco, Cristy grew up in the city’s Mission district, a community enriched by Central American diaspora and generations of Latinx artists, organizers and activists. Her bilingual public school education, infused with dance, music, and theater, ignited her passion to create spaces where all young people discover their power through the arts. This vision paved the way for her career in public service. She is a first-generation college graduate, having earned her undergraduate degree in political science at UC Berkeley and an Executive MBA from the Haas School of Business.
TISH JONES, BNV CO-FESTIVAL DIRECTOR-Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks, Tish Jones is a poet, performer, educator and organizer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has performed at CBGB, Kaplan Theater, The Walker Art Center, Intermedia Arts, The Cedar Cultural Center and more. Her work can be found in the Minnesota Humanities Center's anthology entitled, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015), the 2011 and 2013 Saint Paul Almanac, and the Loft Literary Center's Nation of Immigrants audio CD.
A graduate fellow of the inaugural Intercultural Leadership Institute, Jones has always had a passion for bridging arts & culture, civic engagement and youth development. Senior Field Building Strategist for Youth Speaks, her work explores the ways in which art can function as a tool for social transformation, liberation and education.
Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. Dr. Peña is Founder and President of The Acequia Institute (TAI), a private charitable foundation dedicated to supporting the environmental and food justice movements. Since 2006, TAI has drawn from endowment income, donations, grants, and other sources to provide more than $100,000 in direct-to-producer grants, scholarships, fellowships, and support for acequia and other traditional indigenous farmers. TAI is headquartered on a 181-acre acequia farm within the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant on traditional Caputo Ute hunting territories. Since 1999, Dr. Peña has served as Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of Washington where he directed the Ph.D. Program in Environmental Anthropology for six years. He is a prolific writer and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is the author of three edited volumes and two award-winning monographs. Dr. Peña served as Senior Editor for two separate Oxford Encyclopedia projects on Latina/os assembled by Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez as Editors-in-Chief (2005, 2010).
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