MEChA de Yale @ Mount Holyoke

by Karla Maradiaga, JE ’15 As a junior at Yale who had yet to attend any conferences, I was not sure what to expect at the last ECCSF conference at Mount Holyoke. Thoughts of speeches given by prominent professors and activists came to mind. But the Mount Holyoke conference was much more than that. The conference consisted of several workshops and events that fostered a discussion about the current issues that Chicanos and Latinos face today. One…

Mechista of the Week: Juan Díaz

Juan Díaz, Class of 2015 Residential College: Morse College Hometown: Atlantic City, NJ High School: Atlantic City High School Why did you join MEChA? I joined MEChA because I wanted to get involved with the Latino community, but also do it in a socially conscious way. I knew that MEChA did a lot of cool stuff around things like immigration, worker’s rights, and other community issues, and I wanted to be involved. It has…