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By Gretchen Kell(link sends e-mail), Media relations (Berkeley News)

eff Adachi, the San Francisco public defender...Read more about Remembered: Jeff Adachi, alumnus and San Francisco public defender

http://www.dailycal.org/2019/02/15/a-dangerous-moment-professor-juana-maria-rodriguez-talks-sex-works-history-and-the-internets-(link is external)...Read more about “‘A dangerous moment:’ Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future,”

Congratulations and our deep appreciation to Jeannie Imazumi who celebrated 40 years of service, and Dewey St. Germaine and Laura Jimenez-Olvera who celebrated 25 years at UC Berkeley. Read more about Ethnic Studies Staff Jeannie Imazumi, Dewey St. Germaine, and Laura Jimenez-Olvera Receive UC Berkeley Service Awards

https://mailchi.mp/aaastudies/2019-aaas-election-results-2977809?fbclid=IwAR1Gwectv42n7p1zg6_qhBUovU9MtJFC3WoffKMQaIYv11EzNT_DeXZWQ84(link is external)Read more about Ethnic Studies Alumni Eric Pido and Margaret Rhee Win 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards

There’s a black-and-white photograph, 50 years old now, that Oliver Jones keeps close at hand.

Taken in 1969 at UC Berkeley at the height of the Third World Liberation Front strike, it shows a large group of TWLF activists, a coalition of ethnic groups pushing for more diversity...Read more about The 1969 strike at UC Berkeley was just the beginning of Oliver Jones’s battles

https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/2019-amelia-bloomer-list/(link is external)Read more about Ethnic Studies Alumna Barbara Jane Reyes’ Book Invocation to Daughters is a 2019 Amelia Bloomer Booklist Best Feminist Book for Young Readers

https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2019-janfeb/selections/beth-h-piatote-649334/(link is external)Read more about Mixed Genre Writing by Professor Beth Piatote Is Featured in KROnline

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/24/couple-builds-bridge-to-berkeley-for-coachella-valleys-brightest-neediest-youth/(link is external)Read more about Professor Christian Paiz and Ethnic Studies Students Featured in Story on Coachella Valley Youth at UC Berkeley

https://www.cgu.edu/news/2019/01/17502/(link is external)Read more about Ethnic Studies Alum, Craig Santos Perez, Nominated for the 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Award

Read more about Seeking Study Group Facilitators for SLC Social Science

Professor Christian Paiz is featured in the PBS docu-special "The Other Side of Coachella." This docu-special highlights the Coachella Valley community, and how with support from the organization Building Healthy Communities, community members and local groups have formed an alliance to tackle...Read more about Professor Christian Paiz is featured in the PBS docu-special “The Other Side of Coachella.”

In this digital age when some people are asking whether libraries are needed any more, Melissa Stoner can’t imagine life without them. “My aunt worked in the library at the elementary school that I went to. I went to the library because she was there and because it was quiet. I felt like I could...Read more about Advocating for the Sacred in the Digital Age

Native American Heritage Month was a long time coming.

In the 1910s, Red Fox James(link is external) embarked on a state-to-state sojourn on horseback to solicit support for a single day honoring...Read more about UC Berkeley faculty and a librarian share book picks for Native American Heritage Month

Melissa Stoner and Howard Nez Sr. are related by blood, and always have been. Now more than ever, they’ve also been related by language.

He was a language warrior. She is a literary warrior. For his part, Nez was a Navajo code talker. His granddaughter is a librarian. He was a warrior, a...Read more about Preserving Native American culture, from Standing Rock to Berkeley

In March 1990, L. Ling-chi Wang got on a plane to Washington, where he felt that his words were being twisted.

Mr. Wang, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, had recently scored a victory when the school...Read more about ‘It’s Like Reliving My Past’: Harvard Lawsuit Echoes Previous Fight Over Race and Admissions

Catherine Ceniza Choy is a UC Berkeley Professor and the Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. An interest in history and writing at a young age grew to a history...Read more about In the Heart Stories: Modern Filipinx American Narrative, Essays, and Work

To the Editor:

While President Trump continues to demonize migrants from Central America, why do we so seldom hear about the causes of this migration north? During the wars in the 1980s, the United States government spent billions of dollars in support of murderous...Read more about The Migrant Caravan and the Midterms

http://www.dailycal.org/2018/10/14/uc-berkeley-pilipinx-community-celebrates-life-of-grace-asuncion/(link is external)Read more about UC Berkeley Pilipinx community celebrates life of Grace Asuncion

To the campus community:

I am pleased to share that Ella Callow will be joining UC Berkeley as its ADA/Section 504 Compliance Officer this month. The position of ADA/Section 504 Compliance Officer evinces UC Berkeley’s commitment to ensuring an inclusive and equitable campus...Read more about Native American Studies Alum, Ella Callow, will be Joining UC Berkeley as its ADA/Section 504 Compliance Officer

DROP-IN SCHEDULE

Cynthia Medina, PhD
Specialty Areas/Interests:
• Multicultural/social justice
oriented counseling
• Relationship concerns
• Students struggling with a variety of
intersecting identity-related questions or
concerns
• Under-served and marginalized...Read more about Let’s Talk – Drop-in Consultation for the Department of Ethnic Studies