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The OMA at the National REFORMA Conference 2025

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SCARC’s anti-racist descriptive activities were represented by Oregon Multicultural Archives curator Natalia Fernández at the National REFORMA Conference with a poster presentation titled “Moving from Words to Actions: Anti-Racist Description Projects of Archival Materials Pertaining to Oregon’s Latinx Community History.”

About the Conference

The National REFORMA Conference is the premier training and networking event for those dedicated to library services for Latinos and Spanish-speaking communities. It is hosted by REFORMA, established in 1971 as an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), as a national association to promote library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. The conference theme for this year was “Moving Forward Together: Empowering the Latino Community” and the conference took place September 18-21, 2025, in Long Beach, CA.

Poster Abstract

Archivists are actively engaging in anti-racist work, especially regarding how we describe the materials and collections we steward. This poster shares the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center’s collaborative process for developing and completing anti-racist description projects. As examples, two projects pertaining to Oregon’s Latinx community history are featured: highlighting materials pertaining to Indigenous communities from Mexico present in the Erlinda Gonzales-Berry Papers and remediating the description for our online Braceros in Oregon Photographs collection.

Fernández spoke to 12 attendees during the 1 hour poster session to share SCARC’s work. Many attendees were not members of the special collections and archives community and were delighted and inspired that repositories across the county are engaging in anti-racist descriptive activities.

Digital Access to the Poster via ScholarsArchive@OSU: Moving from words to actions : anti-racist description projects of archival materials pertaining to Oregon’s Latinx community history

Poster as presented at the National REFORMA Conference poster session on September 20, 2025

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Highlights from the National REFORMA Conference 2025

Keynote Speaker: Maria Hinojosa

In 1992, Hinojosa launched Latino USA, “the longest-running public radio Latino news and cultural program,” and in 2010, she founded Futuro Media Group which “creates multimedia content for and about the new American mainstream in the service of empowering people to navigate the complexities of an increasingly diverse and connected world.” (from Latino USA and Future Media Group about pages)

Tour! Chicano History & REFORMA Archives

Description: Explore the REFORMA Archives and uncover Chicano history in Los Angeles. Begin at the REFORMA archives at California State University, Los Angeles, to learn about the organization’s role in preserving and advocating for Latino library services. Then, visit the Chicano Resource Center at the East Los Angeles Library, a vital hub for research on Chicano heritage and activism.

REFORMA archives at California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Los Angeles, Special Collections and Archives
A variety of REFORMA newsletters
REFORMA newsletters from 2001-2002 featuring information about the need for mentorship within the profession and advocating for language rights nation-wide
Reports from the 1980s on topics still relevant to this day: the lack of representation of people of color in the library profession

The Chicano Resource Center at the East Los Angeles Library

The East Los Angeles Library
The Chicano Resource Center, external view
The Chicano Resource Center, internal view

Celebrating 2025 Latiné Heritage Month!

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To kick off 2025 Latino/a/x/é Heritage Month, we were invited to feature the Colegio César Chávez exhibit as part of two Latinx community celebration events!

On October 8th, we were invited to introduce the OPB film The Living Legacy of the Colegio César Chávez at Portland State University for a film screening and panel discussion.

Festival Latino, Albany, OR on September 14th at Monteith Riverpark

The event included musical acts, art and history exhibits (including Colegio!), activities for children, and plenty of food vendors. It was hosted by the Linn-Benton Hispanic Advisory Committee.

Event Photos of the Exhibit and Information Table

About 150 people viewed the exhibit and about 75 event attendees stopped by the information table to ask questions and learn more during the 5 hour event!

PODER Hispanic Heritage Month Summit, Salem, OR on September 15th

PODER, Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network is a nonprofit organization made up of over 3,200 Latino leaders, organizations, businesses, public employees, community members, and allies across Oregon. Oregon’s premier Hispanic Heritage Month Breakfast & Summit brought together hundreds of leaders, executives, and changemakers to celebrate and lead.

This is the 3rd year the Summit has featured the exhibit! About 50 event attendees viewed the exhibit during the pre-breakfast 1-hour resource fair.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion of the OPB film The Living Legacy of the Colegio César Chávez at Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, on October 8th

The event featured a panel of speakers which included Alicia Avila, a multilingual journalist and documentary producer based in Portland, Oregon, who produced the film; Sonny Montes and José Romero, the co-founders of the Colegio César Chávez; and Anthony Veliz, the founder of PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network. There were about 25 attendees.

While the event was not recorded, it was similar to the January 2025 film screening and panel discussion that took place at the Oregon Historical Society; this event was recorded: “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

This event was organized and hosted by PSU’s Global Diversity and Inclusion office which “offers robust diversity programming that serves and empowers student populations whose success, retention, and academic success are most challenged by historical factors and contemporary inequity” (GDI website). PSU was designated as an “emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution” (HSI), a distinction provided to institutions in which Hispanic students make up between 15 and 24 percent of full-time undergraduates and was awarded the 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. In the summer of 2025, is was announced that GDI was being dismantled as part of a broader university restructuring process and this was the office’s final HSI event.

“Ask an Archivist” Interview featuring the OMA and OSQA

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Ask an Archivist Interview: the OMA and OSQA

The Oregon Multicultural Archives and OSU Queer Archives were interviewed by Choice, a source of reviews of new books and digital resources for academic libraries that publishes a bi-monthly feature called “Ask an Archivist” to profile select special collections. The feature is intended to introduce readers to the treasure trove of materials housed in all kinds of archives and libraries. 

Be sure to check out the interview “Oregon State University’s Oregon Multicultural Archives and OSU Queer Archives: A conversation with curator Natalia Fernández about the collections and how they center marginalized communities in Oregon” to see the responses to the questions posed below!

  • Oregon State University (OSU) houses the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) and OSU Queer Archives (OSQA). Can you provide an overview of the two collections and the types of materials they include?
  • Both the OMA and OSQA contain a substantial number of university records, including meeting minutes and photographs from student organizations and documentation on the activities carried out by cultural centers on campus. Could you speak more about these records? How do documents from university groups and initiatives help center and amplify student voices?
  • The OMA and OSQA also feature oral history interviews with students, staff, and members of the wider Oregon community on their histories and experiences. Could you speak to the importance of oral histories, particularly for communities that are currently facing erasure? What does the transcription and cataloging process for the OMA and OSQA’s audio files entail?
  • The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute resulted from a grant project created by the Oregon Multicultural Archives. Can you describe the project and your work with Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes? How does the Institute support the tribes’ autonomy when it comes to preserving and cataloging their histories?
  • I understand that the OSU Queer Archives are overseen by you, an archivist, and Bradley Boovy, a professor. What is the value of archivist-professor partnerships? How can they enrich the development and use of archival collections?
  • What outreach efforts do the OMA and OSQA engage in? How do the collections build community among students and faculty, other universities, and the wider public?
  • In an article about the OSU Queer Archives titled “Co-Founding a Queer Archives,” you and Boovy write that, “…archives have the ability to shift the culture at institutions of higher education towards greater visibility and acceptance by acknowledging and validating the experience of marginalized students and other members of communities connected with universities including faculty, staff, alumni, and administrators.” Can you speak more about archives’ ability to “shift the culture at institutions of higher education” and how they can create opportunities for new stories and modes of understanding?
  • The Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center (SCARC) recently held an exhibit called “Anti-Racist Description Activities in the OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center.” What does this exhibit entail, and how does OMA center anti-racist decision-making?

BIPOC Greek Letter Organizations in SCARC Research Guide!

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Homepage of the BIPOC Greek Letter Organizations in SCARC new research guide

In honor of Juneteenth, celebrated each year on June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people, SCARC is delighted to publish a research guide featuring a curated list of collection materials documenting the histories of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Greek Letter Organizations at Oregon State University. 

BIPOC Greek Letter Organizations in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center

The National Pan-Hellenic Council (the Divine Nine) and the Multicultural Greek Council (consisting of 11 chapters) focus on creating safe and inclusive spaces for students of color on college and university campuses. As part of SCARC’s broader anti-racist and enhanced description efforts that began in 2020, we engaged in a collections survey and conducted research to chronicle the history and activities of these organizations to identify archival collections that would support research on each group (for more information on SCARC’s on-going anti-racist work please see our online guide).

As noted in the guide, the sororities and fraternities featured in this subject guide surfaced as part of our initial round of research into BIPOC Greek life on OSU’s campus. This is an ongoing project for which we will continue to seek out and add materials to our collections, and will update this guide with additional information we or community members surface. 

This summer we plan to update relevant archival collection finding aids to highlight specific materials. Look for another blog post later this year with more information documenting our process and providing more context for this project. 

SPAN 399 “Bilingüismo local y personal” Winter 2025

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Aqui se habla, May 2025 Book Launch Flyer

During winter 2025, the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) collaborated with OSU Professor Adam Schwartz to gather materials from his course SPAN 399 “Bilingüismo local y personal” as an addition to the Oregon Multicultural Communities Research Collection. The set of materials includes course materials, documents pertaining to a book launch, an OSU Today article, and a sample of student projects.

About SPAN 399 “Bilingüismo local y personal”

“This course explores Spanish language education as a deeply personal, local (as opposed to foreign), and lifelong practice. Distinct from a survey course that introduces that thesis through published and multimodal texts, this class challenges students to realize their own bilingualisms as lived, dynamic experiences, and in ways that do not organize neatly into academic categorizations. Students will individually and collectively write, share, reflect, interview, sit in conversation, and present Spanish-English bilingualisms as lifelong relationships with and through teaching and learning.

Our work will be guided by the contents of Aquí Se Habla: Centering the Local and Personal in Spanish Language Education, a co-edited volume to be published this term. One of the co-editors of this text is the course instructor, and the other three will visit our classroom to invite students in as additional contributors. Over the course of ten weeks, students will read the text and learn about its foundational theoretical framework: The tension point. Aquí Se Habla raises awareness about long-standing points of tension that organize as ideological binaries (e.g. “home” vs. “abroad”) which relegate local and personal Spanish to marginalized status in academic spaces. Students will make the case for a tension point of their choosing, one that concerns not just themselves, but their families, friends and bilingual communities. In so doing, their own voices and testimonios will warrant inclusion alongside Aquí Se Habla’s diverse set of contributors, whose perspectives help to deconstruct disciplinary boundaries and elevate the knowledge and lived experiences of U.S. Spanish speakers. Final work in this course will prepare students to showcase how their local and personal bilingualisms may double as calls to linguistic justice. As such, students are invited to co-present with Aquí Se Habla’s co-editors at the volume’s official book launch at OSU in May.”

~ SPAN 399 “Bilingüismo local y personal” Syllabus

About the OMA and SPAN 399 Collaboration

Professor Schwartz shared the tension point the class selected to explore was “self-identity / imposed identity” — a tension point that resonated greatly with archival materials. As part of the students’ first of three visits to the archives, we talked about how archives can be a place in which people choose how their stories are represented on their terms as a form of empowerment and how archives can also be a place in which materials about but not by a community or individual can sometimes cause a great deal of harm. During their second visit, the students engaged with a curated set of materials that showcased the variety of ways in which communities and individuals have represented their identities — examples included diaries, songbooks, collective works of art, scrapbooks, and zines. On the third visit, we discussed the students’ ideas and questions for them to determine if they planned to donate their final projects to the archives. We discussed the importance of choice, representation, and consent, not only from them but for those who they interviewed for their projects. Of about a dozen students, five decided to share their final projects. At the end of the term, the students gave presentations of their findings and reflections, and many again shared their work as part of the Aquí Se Habla book launch on May 21, 2025.

Aqui se habla, May 2025 Book Launch Participants

“The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

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Oregon Experience documentary The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez

On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, the Oregon Historical Society hosted the event “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion” as an accompaniment to the “Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo” exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society.

Over 230+ community members attended the event! And, the event was recorded and is available online for free via the Oregon Historical Society: video recording of “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion (1 hour and 13 minutes)

The event invited the general public to join us for a screening of OPB’s new Oregon Experience documentary The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez. The event included a panel discussion led by documentary producer Alicia Avila, Colegio César Chávez co-founders Sonny Montes and José Romero, and PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network President, Anthony Veliz. Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo exhibition curator, Natalia Fernández, gave an introduction. The panelists shared their thoughts on the history and legacy of the Colegio César Chávez, ideas for the future of a Colegio 2.0, and then opened the conversation to the audience for questions. Prior to the film screening, attendees enjoyed live music from the Forest Grove High School Mariachi band and viewed the exhibition Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo.

Event Panelists:

Event Panelists: Alicia Avila, Sonny Montes, José Romero, and Anthony Veliz

Alicia Avila is a multilingual journalist and documentary producer based in Portland, Oregon. A common theme of her work is advocating for underrepresented communities, language justice, and accessibility. She is a champion of collaborative and community-led storytelling and leads her video production work through trauma informed practices and a bilingual, bicultural reporting lens. Her most recent work led Pacific Northwest based nonprofit, Oregon Food Bank, to transition into fully bilingual English-Spanish content. Avila is a proud first-generation Chicana born and raised in southeast Los Angeles.

Sonny Montes was one of the founders of the Colegio César Chávez, co-founded the César E. Chávez Student Leadership Conference in 1990, and was a member of the César E. Chávez Boulevard Committee in Portland, Oregon, that was successful in renaming 39th Avenue in honor of César Chávez. In 2010, he received the Distinguished Latino Educator Award from the Oregon Association of Latino Administrators.

José Romero was one of the founders of the Colegio César Chávez and co-founded the César E. Chávez Student Leadership Conference in 1990. He is a retired educator, administrator, and community activist for social justice and equality, and he is a life-long advocate for the well-being of the Chicano/Latino community. Romero taught Chicano Studies at Lane Community College and at Colegio César Chávez where he also served as Director of Academic Affairs and was Co-President.

Anthony Veliz is the founder of PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization and collective movement of over 100 Latino-led and serving community-based organizations and private-sector businesses, plus thousands of Latinos across Oregon. Veliz is also the owner of IZO Public Relations & Marketing, a multicultural agency specializing in the Latino community; it is a People Focused, Purpose Driven agency. The son of farmworkers, Veliz is involved in the community where he lives and works, and he has a passion for public service. In August of 2023, PODER organized and sponsored a 50th anniversary community commemoration event to celebrate the history and legacy of the Colegio César Chávez.

Natalia Fernández is an Associate Professor and the Curator of the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) and the OSU Queer Archives (OSQA) at the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Fernández’s mission for directing the OMA and the OSQA is to work in collaboration with Oregon’s African American, Asian American, Latinx, Native American, and OSU’s LGBTIAQ+ communities to support them in preserving their histories and sharing their stories. In collaboration with Montes and Romero, she curated the exhibition Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo.

Event Photos:

PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network
Forest Grove High School Mariachi band performed.
Event attendees viewing the exhibit.
Standing room only for the event attendees!
Oregon Experience documentary: The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez

The “Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo” exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society and Beyond!

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The Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo has been hosted by various organizations and featured at numerous events! Below are images from when the exhibit was hosted at the Oregon Historical Society.

Digital Copies of the Exhibit Panels are available online via Oregon Digital

We have numerous blog posts related to the Colegio César Chávez exhibit and related events – be sure to check them out!

Colegio César Chávez, Oregon Historical Society Exhibit Website

The Oregon Historical Society is hosting the Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo exhibit!

  • Dates: January 10 – April 27, 2025
  • Location: Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon 97205
  • Audience(s): Free for Members, Family-Friendly, Researchers, Teachers
  • Description: Located in Mt. Angel, Oregon, and in operation from 1973 to 1983, Colegio César Chávez was the first independent, four-year accredited Chicano/a college in the United States. Rooted in the Chicano/a notion of “familia,” the college offered a unique and innovative educational philosophy that incorporated a holistic, integrated, community-based approach for students whose needs were not being met by traditional educational institutions. This bilingual exhibition highlights Colegio César Chávez’s significance and legacy by exploring the national and local context for its establishment, its educational philosophy and structure, as well as and the challenges it faced and how it overcame them.
  • Credits and Online Access: Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo was curated by Natalia Fernández, Associate Professor and Curator of the Oregon Multicultural Archives and OSU Queer Archives within the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Digital copies of the exhibition panels are available via Oregon State University’s digital asset management system Oregon Digital.
  • More Information: Oregon Historical Society Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo exhibit website (note: this link will not be active once the exhibit closes)

Radio Interview via The Jefferson Exchange

On February 3, 2025, Jefferson Public Radio interviewed Natalia Fernández for a 15 minute segment about the exhibit! In the interview, Fernández discusses her work as an archivist as well as the exhibition. She shared that the college‘s primary goal was to provide equal education opportunities for Chicano/a and minority students through a bilingual, bicultural curriculum and experiential learning. With the exhibition, Fernández hopes to honor and share this significant history, to highlight the “incredible foundation of social justice advocacy for us to learn from,“ and that people take away the “inspiring legacy for us to continue.”  

Exhibit Photos

“The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” A Documentary by OPB

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“The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” OPB Documentary Artwork

The Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) documentary “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” (17 minutes) is now available online to the public!

Documentary producer Alicia Avila interviewed Colegio César Chávez co-founders Sonny Montes and José Romero, Anthony Veliz of PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network, and Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo exhibition curator Natalia Fernández, just to name a few of those included as part of the film. Additionally, the documentary features materials from the Oregon Multicultural Archives related to the Colegio César Chávez. Note: while the documentary is in English, there is a Spanish language accompanying article “El histórico colegio Chicano de Oregon continúa a inspirar a la comunidad Latine a luchar contra la borradura de su cultura”.

OPB has some additional plans in the works for 2025 including an English and a Spanish episode of a podcast about the history and making of the documentary, as well as screenings of the documentary, especially for K-12 students. One such screening is already planned for January 22nd in Portland, OR!

“The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

Join us for a screening of OPB’s new Oregon Experience documentary The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez. The event will include a panel discussion led by documentary producer Alicia Avila, Colegio César Chávez co-founders Sonny Montes and José Romero, and Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo exhibition curator Natalia Fernández, which will be on view at the Oregon Historical Society in 2025. They will share a behind-the-scenes discussion about the film, the significance of Colegio’s legacy today, and open the conversation to the audience for questions.

Our Town, Mt. Angel Publishing, a 3-part series

A local reporter in Mt. Angel, Melissa Wagoner, published a 3-part print series about Colegio!

UPDATE! In April 2025, the Northwest Regional Emmy Awards announced the nominations for the “Diversity/Equity/Inclusion – Long Form Content” award and “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” nominated!

BONUS! A few behind-the-scenes photos filming the documentary in the SCARC reading room in summer of 2024. Alicia Avila and her team interviewed Sonny Montes, José Romero, and Anthony Veliz.

Summer 2024 OPB Documentary Filming
Summer 2024 OPB Documentary Filming
Summer 2024 OPB Documentary Filming

Thank you to OPB for this amazing opportunity!

SCARC Anti-Racist Description Activities Exhibit, 2024-2025

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SCARC 2024-2025 Main Cases Exhibit

SCARC’s 2024-2025 exhibit “Anti-Racist Description Activities in OSU’s Special Collections and Archives Research Center” is now on view! The exhibit showcases the context, behind-the-scenes processes, and various projects reflecting SCARC’s anti-racist description activities over the past several years.

When: The 2024-2025 academic year (Fall 2024 – Summer 2025)

Where: The Valley Library 5th Floor SCARC Exhibit Cases (open during SCARC’s open hours, Monday – Friday 10am-4pm)

The PDFs of the exhibit are available online via Oregon Digital

SCARC 2024-2025 Main Cases Exhibit
SCARC 2024-2025 Main Cases Exhibit

Community Response to the Exhibit!

OSU Today Story: “OSU library exhibit documents archivists’ anti-racist description work” by Molly Rosbach on Oct. 15, 2024

OSU’s Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) Featured Post on Instagram, November 15, 2024

Exhibit Tour for Members of OLA’s EDIA Committee, November 18, 2024

The mission of the committee is to “encourage an inclusive environment that promotes freedom of speech in conjunction with strong policies that protect patrons and library staff of all gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, race, sexual orientation, disability, income level, age and all other personal, social, cultural and economic perspectives.” They host the podcast Overdue: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries featuring EDIA work in libraries from across Oregon.

OVERDUE: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries: S4, E1- Decolonizing the Archive w/Natalia Fernández

How can academic archives confront harmful narratives and create more inclusive records? Natalia Fernández shares how SCARC’S Antiracist Description Activities project is challenging biased language, improving finding aids and ensuring collections are represented with dignity, non-prejudice and accuracy. Date of Interview: February 6, 2025 Hosts: Joan Vigil & Brittany Young. Length of Interview: 40 minutes.

About OVERDUE: it is a podcast attempting to shine light on the radical inequities and the oppressive nature of the library profession, specifically as it pertains to BIPOC professionals and the communities they serve in the state of Oregon. An Oregon Library Association EDI & Antiracism production.

Colegio César Chávez Exhibit ~ Latinx Heritage Month 2024

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PODER’s Hispanic Heritage Month Breakfast & Summit: Higher Education Summit

The Colegio César Chávez exhibit and a panel presentation about the university’s history and legacy were featured at the September 13th, 2024 Higher Education Summit at the Salem Convention Center.

Colegio Documentary (forthcoming!)

In the morning, Oregon Public Broadcasting Documentary Producer Alicia Avila spoke about her forthcoming short documentary about the legacy of the Colegio César Chávez. The documentary is planned to be available online in mid-October.

Alicia Avila speaking about her OPB Colegio documentary

Panel Presentation

As part of the summit, the afternoon panel provided the historical significance of the Colegio César Chávez from 1970 to 1983, focusing on issues and personal successes during Colegio’s most difficult period. Discussion around Colegio’s historical impact and catalyst for equal educational opportunities for Chicano and other minority students also took place. In addition, the panelists shared some personal stories about César E. Chávez and the lessons they learned from their involvement with the Colegio.

The Colegio panel was a part of the Higher Education Track for the Summit:

Moderator: Natalia Fernández, Curator of the OSU’s Oregon Multicultural Archives & OSU Queer Archives.

Panelists: José Romero, Co-founder of the Colegio César Chávez and Colegio’s Director of Academic Affairs & Sonny Montes, Co-founder of the Colegio César Chávez and Colegio’s Director of Administrative Affairs. José is a retired educator, administrator, and community activist for social justice and equality, and he is a life-long advocate for the well-being of the Chicano/Latino community. José taught Chicano Studies at Lane Community College and at Colegio Cesar Chavez. Along with José, Sonny co-founded the Cesar E. Chavez Student Leadership Conference in 1990. Sonny was also a member of the Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard Committee in Portland, Oregon that was successful in renaming 39th Avenue in honor of Cesar Chavez. In 2010, he received the Distinguished Latino Educator Award from the Oregon Association of Latino Administrators.

The Exhibit

Colegio on Tour

The exhibit is on view to the public from mid-September to mid-October at the Newberg Public Library (503 E Hancock St, Newberg, OR 97132). If you are in the area, be sure to visit!

Bonus

A muralist spoke about his art and included a photo of a mural he worked on for OSU!