ADELANTE Speaker Series

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ADELANTE: Speaker Series

When

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., March 6, 2025
We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of the ADELANTE Speaker Series: Places, Poetics, and Practices of Care—a powerful conversation exploring how place-based knowledge, cultural expressions, and community practices foster resilience and well-being in the Borderlands and beyond.
 
To open the series, we are honored to welcome our first speaker:
 
Speaker: Dominique Valencia Calza
Director, Adalberto & Ana Guerrero Student Center
Office of Diversity & Inclusion, The University of Arizona
 
Opening Talk: Creating Sites of Resistance & Spaces of Belonging
📖 Description: Exploring strategies to align programming and services to be student-centered and culturally sustaining.
📅 Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Location: Guerrero Center, Room 205
 
This inaugural conversation will set the stage for a dynamic series designed to spark dialogue, inspire action, and celebrate the ways Latinx, first-generation, and low-income students thrive through culturally responsive experiences.
We hope you’ll join us as we launch this initiative and engage in meaningful discussions on how storytelling, activism, and education cultivate spaces of care and belonging.
 
🎟️  RSVP by March 4.
Please feel free to share this event with your networks to help us reach those who would benefit from this important conversation.
For any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Ana Cornide at cornide@arizona.edu.