Voices Magazine
“you are not your roots. you are a flower grown from them.” – pavana reddyFor most of my education as a first-generation immigrant, I grew familiar with not seeing myself represented and internalized that I was not worthy of
It was a classic case of “who’s that girl?”Al Grimm impatiently waited for Barbara Jean to end her phone call when he first spotted her at a party in 1963. Transfixed, he had to meet her. Even though that call had
Photo Collage by: Katie Dokson Mexican Americans have been challenging school segregation for over a century.” When I began my doctoral program in the early 1980s, I was interested in history,
It's the start of the school year and the anticipation has gripped new high school English language arts teacher Cassidy Ktsanes.“I’m really excited,” she said. “I just get nervous that I’m not going to be a good teacher, but I
When 11-year-old Luz Elena Sanchez arrived in Yuma, Colorado, with her family from Mexico, she found herself lost among her English-speaking classmates. She had difficulty understanding her homework, and she got into trouble for speaking Spanish in
PhD student Robyn Tomiko giving her Ed Talk, "Lifting the Veil: The Truth About Teaching." Link to: https://youtu.be/FdJl-IdEb54 Together again: Events take on new forms, enhanced meaning of
Dean’s welcome As a child, I loved all libraries—our neighborhood public library where I would bring home stacks of books and my elementary school library where the librarian recommended books to each of us. In third grade, I
Michelle Lopez (MEdu’21) remembers sitting in her grandfather’s kitchen, surrounded by the smells of home cooking, and peppering him with questions about her family history. Lopez’s grandparents originated from the San
