Conducted and complied research on CineFestival, the nation's oldest Latino film festival (founded 1976), to create a crossword puzzle based on the festival's history for the 2017 CineFestival program.
November 2016 - Latinos in Heritage Conservation Reunión 2016
I served on the planning committee for Reunión 2016 and gave a presentation titled "A Brief History of Latin@s in Houston." Houston, TX
La Herencia
Issues of Latinos in Heritage Conservation's quarterly e-newsletter that I have edited since 2015.
July/August 2016 - Before the Courts
Photo essay create for La Voz de Esperanza documenting the housing crisis that existed in San Antonio's Westside before the Alazan-Apache Courts, one of the country's oldest public housing complexes, was built.
November 2016
Altar created to commemorate past communities at the Alazan-Apache Courts.
August 2016
I presented “Tejanos in World War II” as part of the panel Latinos in the United States Armed Forces During World War II, sponsored by the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana, and Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
June 2016
Presentation at Los Dos Caminos: Bridging Borders Across the Centuries, a three-and-a-half day workshop sponsored by the National Park Service, the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association in Laredo, TX.
October 2015 - Latinos and Baseball: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues
This photo shows the kickoff panel for the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Latino Center's Latinos and Baseball: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues initiative. As part of this two-day event I presented “Latinas and Baseball: A View from San Antonio.” Washington, DC.
Spring 2016
Article for the San Antonio Conservation Society's newsletter.
