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In this episode, I talk to Melissa Vela-Williamson about her work in public relations and her publications on this topic. Melissa is an internationally recognized and accredited award-winning public relations strategist, author and national columnist.

In this podcast, I talk to Dr. Jennifer Najera about her co-collabative oral history and digital justice work, Mapping Chicana/Mexicana in the Borderlands. She, long with her co-collaborators, Dr. Michelle Telles and Dr. Cristina Salinas have been working on the the Chicana Borderlands Voices digital humanities archive.

In this episode, I talk to professor Jesus Montaño. Montaño is teacher-scholar of Latinx literatures and cultures, with special interest in children's and young adult literary and cultural production in Our Americas. He is Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University.

In this episode, I talk to Erika Casasola about growing up in South Texas and accepting her calling as a curandera.

In this episode, I talk to Juan Tejeda about San Antonio and tejano conjunto music.

In this episode, I talk to Marco Cervantes, AKA Mexstep, a rapper, producer, DJ, and scholar. He performs as a solo artist and is a member of the hip hop group Third Root. Along with his artistic work, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio and researches Black and Brown cultural and political overlap.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, an award-winning researcher, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education.

In this episode, I talk to Lorena Molina, a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University. She's also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists.

En este episodio, hablo con Ceiba Ili, una artista y educadora hondureña que vive ahora en San Antonio, Texas. Ella nos relata un poco sobre su viaje a Estados Unidos y su desarrollo en la musica y con su flauta.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Jesús Jesse Esparza about his latest co-edited collection with Natalie Garza, The Barrio and the Badge: A History of Latinos and Law Enforcement in Houston.

In this episode, I talk to Jen Yáñez-Alaniz about growing up bilingual, her poetry debut chapbook Surrogate Eater (Alabrava Press), and her forthcoming poetry collection, Pain Theory: Sweetness Ferments into a Beast.

En el episodio anterior de Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio, aprendimos sobre el papel que juegan la familia, la fe y la red comunitaria. En este episodio, escuchamos a nuestros narradores hablar sobre sus esperanzas y sueños para el futuro de las comunidades del sur de Ohio.

En el episodio pasado de Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio, aprendimos sobre las historias de migración y viajes de los cuatro narradores. En este episodio, exploramos el rol de la familia, la fe y las redes comunitarias.

En este primer episodio de Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio, les presentamos a cuatro narradores que han sido residentes del sur de Ohio por muchos años y otros que son relativamente recientes. Ellos son Hector Reffit, J.D. Emnett, Edwin Martell, y Pablo Salinas.

In this episode, I talk to Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Professor of History, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. We discuss his latest book, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship.

En este episodio, converso con el profesor Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera de la universidad de Puerto Rico Mayagüez. Herlihy-Mera es Director del instituto nuevos horizontes y autor de múltiples artículos, y el libro, Decolonizing American Spanish Descolonizando el Español Americano: Eurocentrism and Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem.

In this episode, I talk to Karla Tatiana Vasquez is about her cookbook, her memories of food and place, and living in the diaspora.

In this episode, I talk to Dorotea Reyna and her first book, Los cedros: A tejana memoir.

En este episodio converso con la profesora Claudia Holguín Mendoza, an associate professor of Hispanic Studies and specializes in Spanish linguistics, y el profesor Jorge Leal, an assistant professor of history and specializes in cultural and urban history. Holguín y Leal están en la universidad de California en Riverside.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Damian Vergara Wilson about the uniqueness of the Spanish language in New Mexico.

In this episode, I talk to Daniel A. Olivas, a fiction writer, poet, playwright, book critic, and attorney. He is the author of Chicano Frankenstein: A Novel (Forest Avenue Press, 2024), and My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (University of Nevada Press, 2024), among many other works.

In this episode, I talk to Yvette Chairez. She is a Chicana scholar and writing instructor working in the fields of visual rhetoric and performance studies. Dr. Chairez teaches in the English program at Texas A&M University – San Antonio.

In this episode, I talk to las doctoras Lizbett Tinoco and Sonya Barrera Eddy, about their journey through higher education, and how they engage Chicana Rhetorics as an extension of themselves onto their research and pedagogies.

In this episode, I talk to professor Leonardo Flores about life in Puerto Rico, electronic literature and Artificial Intelligence.

In this episode, I talk to writer and anthropologist Ruth Behar. She is the James W. Fernandez Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

In this episode, I talk to Arlett Franco Urquilla about her migration story from El Salvador, being an educator, and her interest in the art of pottery.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Sonia Bassheva Mañon. about her exhibit, Invisible identities, mujeres dominicanas en California.

En este episodio, la doctora Bárbara Abadía-Rexach y yo conversamos sobre el trabajo de nombrar y reclamar la identidad afrodescendiente entre la comunidad puertorriqueña en especifico, y en Latinoamérica en general. La profesora Bárbara Abadía-Rexach es una mujer negra puertorriqueña, comunicadora cimarrona, antropóloga activista, lideresa antirracista y afrofeminista.

In this episode, I talk with Dras. Maria Cotera and Linda Garcia Merchant about their groundbreaking work documenting Chicana activist and their project Chicana Por Mi Raza Memory Collective.

In this episode, I talk to filmmaker, performer, and artist, Christine Stoddard, about the filming of her play, My Abuela, Queen of Nightmares.

In this episode, I talk to San Antonio Poet Laurate Eddie Vega, about his journey to el poeta de los tacos.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Yvette Martínez-Vu and Dr. Miroslava Chávez-García about their journey to higher education and their new book, Is Grad School For Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students.

In this episode, I talk to Chrissie Sorenson and Valeri Aragon about their work with Each One Teach One, a non profit organization that serves Adult leaners in their literacy journey.

In this episode, Ximena and Candy talk about their student organization, Active Minds. The discuss the importance of mental health support on college campuses and the activities they offer to those who attend their events.

In this episode, guest host Ximena interviews Nicole about her experience with the Spanish language in Kansas and Texas.

In this episode, I talk to Cristy Moran (she/ ella), a librarian, educator, instructional designer, and information literacy specialist who has worked in libraries and education for over 15 years. She currently serves as the Adult Library Services Senior Consultant at the Colorado State Library.

En este episodio, Samuel y Alexa conversan sobre las experiencias de hablar y estudiar español en diferentes regiones de Texas.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Nolan Cabrera, an award-winning scholar and nationally recognized expert in the areas of racism/anti-racism on college campuses, whiteness, and ethnic studies. He is currently a Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.

In this episode, I talk to Dra. Lillian Gorman, professor at University of Arizona about her life growing up in New Mexico and her jouney through higher education. We also discussed her upcoming book titled, Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identity in Northern New Mexico (2024).

In this episode, I talk to law Professor and author, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández. García Hernández is the author of Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants (2019), Crimmigration Law (2015), and his most recent book, Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” published in 2024

In this episode, I talk to Dr. María Herrera-Sobek about her long career and pioneering work on Chicana/o Studies and her busy life as a retired academic.

In this episode, I talk to Ruben Espinosa. Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021), Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England (2011), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014). He is currently at work on his next monograph, Shakespeare on the Border: Language, Legitimacy and La Frontera.

Im the episode, I talk to Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq. She is an assistant professor of professional and technical writing at Virginia Tech who focuses on empowerment, social justice, Indigenous advocacy, and equitable research practices. She is an Iñupiaq from NW Alaska and an enrolled member of the Noorvik Native Community.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Damaris Puñales-Alpízar, about her migration story, her academic journey and publishing her first poetry collection titled, No vine a hacerme la inocente.

In this episode, I talk to President Salvador Héctor Ochoa of Texas A&M University—San Antonio. We talk about his experience growing in the Rio Grande Valley and his journey into higher education.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Jennifer Nájera about her journey through higher education and her scholarship on undocumented student activism. She also discusses her ongoing collaborative work on mapping Chicana/Mexicana contributions of women's organizing in South Texas and Southern Arizona.

In this episode, I talk to Anel Flores, a South Texas writer, about her work and inspiration for writing.

In this episode, I discuss Spanish teaching and learning with professor Adam Schwartz and his new book Spanish so White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of ‘Foreign' Language Education, published in 2023. This book is now available as audiobook, narrated by Schwartz!

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Regina Mills, Assistant Professor of Latinx and U.S. Multi-ethnic Literature in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. We discuss her first monograph, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades.

In this podcast, Lidia Flores talks about Daca and undocumented people's journey through higher education.

In this episode, I talk to Lori Alvarez about her pregnancy journey and her work supporting other women to get the resources and help they need.