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Dear Luis,
Latino Education & Advocacy Days - Thursday, March 27, 2014
"Latino Male Crisis in the Educational Pipeline"
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 José Angel Gutiérrez
José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney (Dallas TX) and Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington; Founder of the Center for Mexican American Studies.
Dr. Gutiérrez, along with Cesar Chavez, Reies Tijerina, and Corky Gonzales, stands out as among the most important and influential leaders of the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in 1967, one of the first student activist groups of the Chicano movement; and founding member and past president of the political third-party La Raza Unida Party, which left its mark on the political scene, challenging Democratic and Republican parties alike to court the ignored Mexican American and Latino voter.
Jose Angel Gutiérrez was one of many activists working to change public education on a local level in the 1960s and 70s. Born in Crystal City, Texas, and educated in local schools, Gutiérrez mobilized the community to demand equal treatment for Chicano students. He was lead organizer of the Winter Garden Project, the project that which led to the now famous walkout of 1969.
Dr. Gutiérrez has been organizer, founder and co-founder of several other organizations such as the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC), Ciudadanos Unidos, Obreros Unidos Independientes, Becas Para Aztlán, Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement, Northwest Voter Registration and Education Project, and Grupo de Apoyo para Immigrantes Latin Americanos (GAILA).
He has been the subject of many articles and film documentaries, including the PBS video series, CHICANO! The Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights, and is mentioned in many Chicano history and political science books. Most recently, Dr. Gutiérrez had been featured in the new PBS series "Latino Americans" (aired fall 2013) and he is featured along with others in segment 5, "Pride and Prejudice."
 Sean Arce
Sean Arce; an educator, scholar, activist, as well as co-founder and the former director of the renowned and successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) program, "outlawed" by Arizona's Tucson Unified School District.
The May 2013 ruling that upheld the constitutionality of HB 2281 (the legislation that makes MAS "illegal") set the stage across the country for legal challenges to ethnic studies programs at every level of education. We have seen one such challenge already in Texas.
Tucson continues to be ground zero in the national movement for preserving ethnic studies and protecting public education, and Mr. Arce will speak about the battle for MAS and the next phase of this struggle to save ethnic studies.
Arce continues to carry on the legacy of MAS based on the concept of In Lak Ech - the Mayan philosophy of interpersonal responsibility. As a result, the Xican@ Institute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO) has been created with support from faculty at Arizona's Prescott College. XITO is the evolution of the struggle to promote Mexican American Studies in school districts around the country.
 Jerry Tello
Jerry Tello, who is the present Director of the National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute, is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of fatherhood, family strengthening, community peace and mobilization, and culturally based violence prevention/intervention issues. Visit the Jerry Tello website for more information.
 * His presentation is right in line with our running theme of the "Latino Male Crisis in the Educational Pipeline", and we are pleased to be working alongside our partner, theNational Compadres Network(established in 1988), which is a national effort whose focus is the reinforcement of the positive involvement of Latino males in the lives of their families, communities, and society.
Over the last 30 thirty years Mr. Tello has dedicated his efforts to preventing and healing the pain of relationship/community violence, teen pregnancy, fatherless-ness and internalized oppression by speaking to over half a million people and training thousands of facilitators across the nation to address these issues.
The White House Office of Public Engagement and Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships honored Mr. Tello for his tremendous work in the fields of fatherhood and low-income men and boys. Because of his work in this field Jerry Tello was recognized as a White House "Champion of Change" -
Mr. Tello has motivated, trained and mentored thousands of individuals, organizations and community groups in the various curricula that he has authored addressing the issues of Fatherhood, Male "Rites of Passage," relationship and gang violence prevention, teen fatherhood, pregnancy prevention, family strengthening, fatherhood literacy and community peace. He served as a principal consultant for Scholastic Books on International Bilingual Literacy curriculum focused at reaching low-income families, he is the author of "A Fathers Love," a series of children's books, coeditor of Family Violence and Men of Color and a series of motivational CD's.
He has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Latina and Lowrider magazines and has received many major awards including the Presidential Crime Victims Service award, presented by President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno, two California Governor's Awards for his violence prevention and intervention advocacy work and the Ambassador of Peace award from Rotary International. As part of his continued work on peace, healing and violence prevention he is presently working in numerous communities integrating a trauma/healing informed approach to violence prevention.
Finally, in collaboration with the American G.I. Forum, Mr. Tello is part of an effort of providing Domestic Violence awareness presentations and support services to Iraq, Afghanistan and Persian Gulf veterans and their spouses. Presently, he also directs the Sacred Circles Center in Whittier, California and is a member of the Sacred Circles performance group dedicated to community peace and healing. He is the proud father of three children Marcos, Renee, Emilio and grandfather of Amara
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Dr. Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
LEAD Executive Director
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