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Healing Community in Coronatimes:

Education, Migration, and Identity

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ETHNIC , GENDER & TRANSBORDER STUDIES

– VIRTUAL SUMMIT –

April 28, 2020 >> 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Welcome

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ETHNIC, GENDER & TRANSBORDER STUDIES VIRTUAL SUMMIT

2HEALING COMMUNITY IN CORONATIMES: EDUCATION, MIGRATION, AND IDENTITY

On behalf of Pima Community College, welcome to today’s Fifth Annual Ethnic, Gender and Transborder Studies (EGTS) Virtual Summit. I wish you success as you share information and perspectives on the summit’s apt and timely theme, “Healing Community in Coronatimes.” As we move forward through this new era, EGTS must be a critical player in helping the College fulfill its role as an instrument of social justice.

Historians know that present-day challenges were born in the past. In the United States, COVID has laid bare societal inequities that have been decades, if not centuries, in the making. Many of COVID’s impacts

have fallen disproportionately on the poor, people of color, the indigenous and the undocumented – people with long and deep experience with the world’s sharp edges.

COVID presents an opportunity to discuss income inequality, uneven access to healthcare, the digital divide, and the relationship between employer and worker. EGTS possesses unique and powerful knowledge of these issues, as do Pima faculty and staff, because every day they see the profound impact of these issues on so many of their students. As a school, we can impart the knowledge, skills and mentorship to students who possess the passion to help bring about equity in our society.

EGTS has been an exceptional leader in building a multicultural world in which all stories are told. COVID presents an opportunity to change the trajectory of those stories by empowering our students to be change-makers. It will be hard work but, should it succeed, quietly revolutionary.

With gratitude,

Lee D. Lambert, J.D., Chancellor, Pima Community College

¡Bienvenid@s! PHOTOS for program in order of appearance

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The monarch butterfly is a poignant and inspiring symbol of migration and human mobility, themes central to this year’s Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies (EGTS) Virtual Summit. We of the borderlands are familiar with these themes. Yet, we are often not aware of the diversity of migrant and refugee populations or their struggles due, in part, to state repression increasing in recent decades and accelerating under the Trump Administration. Its xenophobia grows more extreme by the day, from calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus” to proposing just last week to suspend immigration to “the land of immigrants.” This year’s summit gathers diverse, experienced, and educated voices to disrupt both silences and demagoguery that contribute to the oppression of migrants and refugees.

Notice, too, the butterflies gracing our program are multi-colored. This symbolizes not only the multi-ethnoracial composition of those who traverse the globe and arrive at U.S borders seeking refuge and a better life, but also of their varied gender and sexual identities. Similarly, the brown- and rainbow-colored hands of our department’s logo (above) also represent these diversities inherent to the human condition. Like the hands in this logo reaching to embrace each other, our department teaches understanding, appreciation, and acceptance of our diversities, among the most poignant lessons of our disciplines and goals of every EGTS Summit.

Each year, the summit provides hope, good will, and common purpose by addressing critical social issues. The planning group decided that continuing this tradition was imperative in order to maintain some sense of normalcy for and connection to our students and community in the midst of so much change and isolation due to the pandemic. Transitioning to a virtual format has been quite challenging. It has tested the limits of our technical and organizational capacities as the first event of its kind at Pima College. Yet, the dedication and collaboration of our planning group and of many others at Pima encouraged us to meet this challenge. Sustaining the summit as a vibrant space of critical perspectives and insurgent voices is, in the words of Paulo Freire, our “pedagogy of love” for students, the college, and our community.

Con brazos abiertos,

Dr. Francisca James Hernández

Faculty and Dept. Head, Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies/Sociology (EGTSS), Pima Community College

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HEALING COMMUNITY IN CORONATIMES: EDUCATION, MIGRATION, AND IDENTITY

Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies Virtual Summit Schedule

Click here to VIEW summit on Youtube channel. youtube.com/channel/UCZUWFVAYOZyhr9lPi2J7jhQSend questions for speakers to: [email protected]

PHOTOS for program in order of appearance


9 A.M.

Opening Ceremony

by Miguel Flores, Jr. Chief Executive Officer, Holistic Wellness Counseling & Consultant Services, LLC

Introduction

by Dr. David Doré, President of Campuses and Executive Vice Chancellor, Pima Community College

Welcome

by Lee D. Lambert, J.D., Chancellor, Pima Community College

9:20 - 10:20 A.M. Keynote Address

Bamby Salcedo (she/her/hers/ella) speaks to issues related to COVID-19 in trans and migrant communities. The presentation will focus on the position of trans and migrant populations and how this pandemic has affected trans and migrant communities. The presentation will also provide things that we can all do to address those issues to better support trans and migrant populations.

Circumstances and Responsibility: Trans and Migrant People in the Era of COVID-19

Bamby Salcedo, President, TransLatin@ Coalition

Q&A Moderators: Marcos Trujillo (they/them/theirs) , Faculty, Sociology/Gender & Women’s Studies, EGTSS Dept., and Hilda Ladner (she/her/hers), Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Pima Community College.Send questions for speakers to: [email protected]

Opening | Introduction | Welcome

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10:30 - 11:30AM Panel I: Indigenous Perspectives on Migration and Refuge-Seekers

Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in Migration and within the Framework of COVID-19

Juanita Cabrera López, Executive Director, International Mayan League

Invisible No More: Forced Migration of Indigenous Peoples

Blake Gentry, Director of the Indigenous Language Office and Founder, Casa Alitas

Space: The Final Frontier Transforming Mainstream Spaces to Include Indigenous Voices

Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, Co-founder, Indivisible Tohono

Juanita Cabrera López addresses how hundreds of thousands of diverse Indigenous peoples of the immigrant community in the United States, those in detention centers under the custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and those surviving in makeshift camps on the northern Mexico border under the U.S. government’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) are systematically excluded in the COVID-19 pandemic response mechanisms. During this presentation, you will hear how the lack of recognition of our Indigenous identity and the exclusion of our indigenous languages at the local, national, and international levels puts our lives at risk, threatens the survival of our Peoples, and violates our rights of self-determination, autonomy and to be free from any kind of discrimination.

Blake Gentry analyzes speakers of indigenous languages who emigrated from the Americas to the United States 2019-2020 documented at the Alitas immigrant shelter in Tucson, Arizona. He explores the racial & cultural origins and persistence of stigma associated with indigenous language status in Guatemala and at the US-Mexico border. Mapping demonstrates an emergent Mayan Diaspora in the United States created by language communities. Finally, he discusses examples of indigenous language use at the US-Mexico border and under the COVID-10 pandemic.

Gabriella Cázares-Kelly (she/her) presents the importance of making space for yourself in places where it feels like you don’t belong. Navigating through different spaces and the language we use when community building.



Q&A Moderators: Dr. Francisca James Hernández (she/her/ella/suya), Faculty/EGTSS Dept. Head, Pima Community College, and Tiffany Amorette Young (she/her), Faculty, Sociology, EGTSS Dept., Pima Community College.Send questions for speakers to: [email protected]


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Panel II: Getting to the root of it all: Black migration and displacement11:40 A.M. - 12:40 P.M.

Teré Fowler-Chapman Black trans activist, writer, educator, poet, and Words on the Avenue founder

Trinice Joy McNally Founding Director, Center for Diversity, Inclusion & Multicultural Affairs, University of the District of Columbia

Fredian Tuyisenge Outreach Coordinator for Campus Conversations, University of Arizona

Teré Fowler-Chapman (he/him/his and they/them/theirs) identifies creative writing modalities and explore the ways they connected with their wounded and inner child self to shift a generational cycle of trauma. They will be engaging in meaningful dialogue about their past, providing creative writing practices as a source of healing, and providing you with modalities you can use as you continue to embark on your journey of healing from past traumas.

Join Trinice Joy McNally (she/her) and Fredian Tuyisenge (she/her/hers), two Black migrants, as they break-down the institutional and social impacts of imperialism, colonialism and displacement of African people through a timeline and sensory motor activity through their feminist lens.

Q&A Moderators: Treya Allen (she/her), Faculty, EGTSS and STU Depts., Pima Community College, and Marcos Trujillo (they/ them/theirs), Faculty, Sociology/Women’s and Gender Studies, EGTSS Dept., Pima Community College.Send questions for speakers to: [email protected]

12:50 - 1:35 P.M. Panel III: TUSD Students Discuss Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Luz Islava Valenzuela, Pueblo High School

Madelyn Youtsey, Pueblo High School

Luz Islava Valenzuela and Madelyn Youtsey are both juniors taking Culturally Relevant U.S. History at Pueblo High School.

Q&A Moderators: Yolanda Gonzáles (she/her), Program Coordinator, Immigrant Student Resource Center, Pima Community College, and Kiana Martínez (she/her), Collaborative Research in Action (CRiA) Liaison and Pima Community College student.Send questions for speakers to: [email protected]



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1:45 - 2:45PM Panel IV: Migration, Detention, and Deportation at the U.S.–Mexico Border

Migration, Militarization and Criminalization – Arizona (The Latest Chapter: The Assault and Incarceration of Children) Isabel Garcia, Former Pima County Legal Defender and Founder, Coalición de Derechos Humanos

#LetThemGo - Social Media and the Movement for Abolition during COVID-19 Gloria Negrete-López, Ph.D. student, Gender & Women’s Studies/Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona

My Father's Deportation Alicia Garcia, Pima Community College-EGTSS student

Isabel Garcia discusses the unprecedented militaristic infrastructure buildup along the U.S-Mexico border with Arizona as the flashpoint for punitive and regressive policies resulting in death and disappearance in the desert, separation of families, damage to our beautiful and unique environment, interruption of and barriers to indigenous peoples cultural traditions, mass detention and incarceration of migrants, to name only a few. Garcia will address “Operation Streamline,” the Zero Tolerance Federal Prosecution Program, which fueled the Child Separation disaster along the border since 2018. What are the lessons to be learned from over two decades of unprecedented funding of “border security” measures? How do we face the growing calls for further militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border?

Gloria Negrete-López (she/her/hers) explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has illuminated the health inequities that exist among those most vulnerable in our communities, particularly those in prisons, jails, and detention centers. Last week several organizations launched week-long activities all centered around one goal: to liberate those that are being detained and imprisoned (#letthemgo). This presentation will discuss the organizing and activism currently being done virtually by individuals and organizations insistent on liberation and freedom for all. More importantly, this presentation asks why is abolition important especially at this current moment? Why should abolition matter to everyone?

Alicia Garcia (she/her) presents an intimate, oral remembering of her father's undocumented life, deportation and the affect it had on her family.

Q&A Moderators: Hilda Ladner (she/her), Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, and Yolanda Gonzáles (she/her), Program Coordinator, ISRC, Pima Community College.Send questions for speakers to: [email protected]

2:45 – 3 P.M. Closing

by Dr. Dolores Durán-Cerda, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Services, Pima Community College


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Speakers’ Biographies (in order of appearance)

Miguel Flores, Jr. works with Native American communities as a traditional healer and counselor. He is a Licensed Independent Substance Abuse Counselor in the State of Arizona and a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Specialist, National Board of Forensic Counselors. Mr. Flores is a proud member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Tohono O’odham Nation, for which he has provided Spiritual Leadership and Traditional Medicine for the past 28 years. He is also a husband, father, artist, healer, counselor, and teacher. He has a 30-year career in behavioral health providing services for The People, particularly youth. As the CEO and owner of his own business, Holistic Wellness Counseling & Consultant Services, he coordinates a team of traditional healers, acupuncturists, counselors, and artists to provide a holistic healthcare. Mr. Flores is a member of the Tribal Advisory Committee for the Southern Arizona Tribes for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Indian Health Services (IHS).

Bamby Salcedo is a national and international transgender Latina Woman who received her Master’s Degree in Latin@ Studies from California State California Los Angeles. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the U.S. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for Trans people in Los Angeles. Bamby’s activist work has brought voice and visibility to not only the trans community, but also to the multiple overlapping communities and issues that her life has touched including migration, HIV, youth, LGBT, incarceration and Latin@

communities. “TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story,” is a documentary made about her life. She has been featured and recognized in People en Español, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT 100, and featured in the HBO documentary, “The Trans List,” among many others. Bamby has also being recognized for her outstanding work by multiple national and local organizations.

Juanita Cabrera López is Maya Mam from the Western Highlands of Guatemala. She is a survivor of the internal armed conflict in Guatemala and a former political refugee. She has both personal and professional work experience in the defense of indigenous peoples’ human rights. Her focus has been to use international law and organizations and traditional knowledge for the development of an indigenous human rights response in the areas of immigration, land rights, and environmental protection. She works with Maya leaders and elders in Guatemala and the United States through their traditional institutions. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its full and effective use and implementation is a key pillar to her work. She holds a Master of International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Blake Gentry (Cherokee Nation) is an international policy expert in indigenous community health, development, and climate change adaption. He served as adjunct/associate faculty with the University of Arizona: MEZ Public Health College, Dept. of Geography and International Development, and Mexican-American Studies, and appointed consultant to Rewi Alley

Research Center, Lanzhou City University, Ganzu, China. He is a policy advisor to Traditional O’odham Leaders in Mexico, with whom he co-designed an autonomous indigenous census. Blake researches and writes about migration, immigrant rights, and indigenous language rights. He directs the Indigenous Languages Office at the Alitas Shelter in Tucson and the Guatemalan Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project. He is an associate with Higher Ground Foundation and Adaptation Ledger. His work is mentioned in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Guardian, Indian Country Today, and Arizona Daily Star.

Gabriella Cázares-Kelly is a proud, union dues paying, #RedForEd public school educator and community organizer. She is one of four women who founded Indivisible Tohono, a grassroots, community organization that provides opportunities for education and civic engagement for members of her tribe: the Tohono O’odham Nation. She is extremely active in local politics and believes in the need to infiltrate, create or transform spaces to include Indigenous voices and issues. She lives in Tucson with her husband, Ryan, and their two children who have been displaced from the University of Arizona dorms due to Covid-19. She is a writer and a candidate running for Pima County Recorder in 2020. @CasaOnTheRez #IndigenousWomanComingThrough.

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Teré Fowler Chapman is a black trans activist, writer, educator in Tucson—by way of Sonoran desert | by way of boot’s bayou. This poet is the Words on the Avenue founder and the first African American executive director of the Tucson Poetry Festival. He is a National Arts Strategies’ Creative Community Fellow, and a “Bettering American Poetry 2016” nominee. You can find Teré or their work forthcoming or published in many places, including Huffington Post, University of Arizona’s VOCA, TEDxTucson, Tucson Weekly, Arizona Public Media’s PBS & NPR, and more.

Trinice Joy McNally is a Black Queer Feminist who is a nationally recognized transformative leader, student affairs professional, researcher, and organizer committed to the liberation for all Black people. She is most passionate about developing national strategies and best practices for HBCUs to foster welcoming and inclusive environments for their historically marginalized populations through programmatic, advocacy and political education efforts. McNally currently serves as the founding director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion & Multicultural Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), which is dedicated to promoting social justice through the development of co-curricular programs and educational activities that enhance the personal development, success and collegiate experience for historically marginalized students to build power on campus and in their communities. She is a member of the Black Youth Project 100, UndocuBlack Network and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

Fredian Tuyisenge (she/hers) is a junior at the University of Arizona with majors in Public Policy and Law. Fredian speaks from the experiences of being a Black feminist in the United States and how her

background as a person with refugee background has shaped her experience in activism. Her passion is centering voices that often get lost within movements and seeking to dismantle the silencing of Black migrants.

Isabel Garcia is a fourth-generation Tucsonan, is a longtime human rights advocate and organizer with Coalición de Derechos Humanos. She attended Pueblo High School and graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA and JD in the 1970s. She is a member of the Arizona State Bar. Isabel worked as an Assistant Pima County Public Defender and, later, Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1980-1986. She, then, entered private practice to focus on criminal and immigration defense litigation. In 1992, Isabel was named Director of the Pima County Legal Defender where she fought against the injustices in the criminal justice system and the incarceration of our communities until retirement in 2015. Isabel has championed migrant rights and against the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing international focus on policy-driven death in the region. Among her many awards and recognitions are: the Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship, which led her to represent migrant farm workers in Del Rio, Texas with Texas Rural Legal Aid; the Human Rights Award (2006) from Mexico’s Human Rights Commission, as the first person not born or living in Mexico to receive the honor, and the Alfonso Garcia Robles Award (2018) from the University of Mexico (UNAM) for her decades of work in defense and promotion of the human rights of migrants.

Gloria Negrete-López is a Doctoral Student in Gender and Women’s Studies with a Minor in Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her developing dissertation focuses on the role of abolitionist art in disrupting narratives of (im)migrant criminality. Her

research interests include: Chican@/Latin@ Studies, Cultural Studies, Migration Studies, Prison Abolition, and Women of Color Feminisms. She earned an M.A. in Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU), has a B.A. in Gender Studies with a minor in Labor and Workplace Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an A.A. in Liberal Arts from Fullerton College. As a first-generation, working-class, Queer, Chicana, and Prison Abolitionist, she serves as an advocate and mentor for young women and students from underrepresented backgrounds within academia.

Alicia Garcia is a Pima student who is currently working towards an Associate’s of Liberal Arts with a focus in EGTS. She is passionate about social justice issues especially within her local community. She was last year’s 1st place visual arts scholarship winner at the 2019 EGTS Summit.

Dolores Durán-Cerda serves as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at Pima Community College, where she leads and oversees all academic and student affairs areas for the College, while focusing on student success, community engagement and diversity. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American literature with an emphasis in poetry, from the University of Arizona. Dolores received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, has published and translated articles, and has presented at national and international conferences on pedagogy and literature. A seasoned educator, Dr. Durán-Cerda has 20 years of comprehensive and increasingly responsible college-level instructional, administrative and leadership experience.

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Co-sponsors

Dept. of Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies/Sociology (EGTSS); Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Office of the Provost; Office of the President of Campuses; and Division of Social Sciences at Pima Community College. Also, Dept. of Mexican American Studies and Semillas del Pueblo, University of Arizona; Mexican American Student Services, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Program, and Collaborative Research in Action (CRiA), Tucson Unified School District.

Special thanks to our Co-sponsors and the following at Pima Community College:

Lee D. Lambert, J.D., Chancellor

Dolores Durán-Cerda, Ph.D., Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Services

David Doré, Ed.D., President of Campuses

Lamata Mitchell, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Learning

Michael Parker, Ph.D., Division Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities

Anne Denogean, Marketing

Bryce Morthland and Himelda Davidson, Media Production and Publications

Mike Rom, Instructional Media

Dan Pinard, TV/Video Services

Evan Goldberg, IT Services

Clayton Braasch, IT Services

Karla Gonzáles, Financial Aid Office

Faculty and staff moderators

Faculty judges for the scholarship contests

Deepest gratitude to members of the 2020 EGTS Summit Work Group:

Dominique Calza, Rosanne Couston, Anne Denogean, Dr. Maria Federico Brummer, Jeffrey Gabbitas, Yolanda Gonzáles, Dr. Jesus Jaime-Diaz, Dr. Francisca James Hernández, Hilda Ladner, Lorenzo López, Bill Maginnis, Kiana Martínez, Dr. Richard Orozco, Bardo Padilla, Dan Pinard, Mike Rom, Dr. Sherrie Lynn Stewart, Marcos Trujillo, and Tiffany Amorette Young.

And to the many PCC staff and faculty who work behind the scenes and contributed their time, energy and expertise to the virtual summit!

For PCC library resources related to Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies, go to: libguides.pima.edu/EGTS

To donate to EGTS student scholarships or to programs like this one, go to: pimafoundation.org/egts/

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