Voices - Vol 5

  • 3 Polaroid style photos of Ruth Cline
    Growing up in Pueblo, Jason Romero (EthStu’13, MEdu’16) remembers hearing about the stories and struggles of Los Seis de Boulder, six Chicano activists and students killed in car bombings in 1974.“I ended up coming to CU Boulder because
  • 3 Polaroid style photos of Ruth Cline
    Teachers know their students and how to be helpful for them, and they shouldn’t depend on the school board or other agencies to tell them what to teach.” Ruth Cline has always had a deep
  • Photo of Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez standing infront of a wall mural painting.
    Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez in front of a Denver mural by local artist Casey Kawaguchi and Nepali artist Imagine876, who are both known for their street art and Asian influences When Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez was a fourth
  • Photo of Borderless Roots group
    “My soul is from Chile,” the fifth grader explained. Born in the United States, she describes herself as “kind of” American and Chilean and gravitates toward her Chilean roots.Her description illustrates the complexities of “home” for transnational
  • Photo of books featured in "what we're reading" article
    A quick look at the recent books from our faculty and community.
  • Centaurus High School students and Soraya Latiff
    “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
  • Image of Barbara Jean standing next to sports car coupe
    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
  • Image of Photo Collage (Digital)
    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,
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