by Elvia Arriola | Apr 14, 2020 | Migrants and Human Rights
REIMAGINING THE BORDER — VOICES AT THE BORDER Common Ground Voices/La Frontera creates community music projects in collaboration with refugee shelters at the Mexico-US border. Their recent project DOS CUERPOS is available on YouTube. WHAT IS COMMON GROUND...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 8, 2020 | Migrants and Human Rights
JESS CHAPIN has a long history of academic research and activism around the struggles of women, immigrants and gender minorities on the U.S.-Mexico border and within in the U.S. Her doctoral work for a PhD in cultural anthropology addressed issues of gender and...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 8, 2020 | Migrants and Human Rights
DONNA HOFFMAN is a communication and community organizing professional with other thirty years’ experience in the non-profit sector. As Communications Coordinator for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, she produced over 30 press events, wrote or edited over 200...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 8, 2020 | Migrants and Human Rights
DONNA J BLEVINS, JD, MPP, Board Member and of Counsel to WOB Donna Blevins is a long time resident of Austin and former lobbyist on issues of equity in public education in the State of Texas. She is a licensed attorney in Texas who earned her law degree from...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 8, 2020 | Migrants and Human Rights
DR. JOSEFINA CASTILLO: “As a sociologist and as a woman, I’ve always been concerned with issues that address social and gender equality. Also my faith has always influenced my personal stance and beliefs in non-violent conflict transformation. These factors have...
