This past weekend, MEChistas travelled to Philly for Penn’s Winter ECCSF Conference. We met incredible students from schools across the Northeast, attended engaging workshops, and heard speeches from incredible Latinos, including one by our own Yale alum, Marco Davis ’92, who spoke about the role Latino leaders will play in our nation’s future. MEChA de Yale congratulates MEChA de Penn on a job well done, and we look forward to…
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…
On April 9, MEChA de Yale marched in solidarity with the New Haven community, members of the Black Student Alliance at Yale, the Association of Native Americans at Yale and Students Unite Now. Students marched from Beinecke Plaza to the New Haven Green during the National Day of Action for fair immigration reform with a realistic path to citizenship. The march was organized by the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance.
Nine Mechistas attended the East Coast Chicano/a Student Forum hosted by Georgetown University on April 5 – 7. The theme was The State of Chicano/Latino Affairs: Claiming Our Future. Students attended a wide array of workshops, including Latino/as in the Catholic Church, the history of Mexican migration to the United States and the Student/Farmworker Alliance.
Twelve MEChistas attended the East Coast Chicano/a Student Forum at Harvard from Feb. 15 – 17. The theme of the conference was Latinos in the Media. Highlights include hearing “Noticiero” co-anchor María Elena Salinas give a speech on issues currently affecting Latinos, watching Mariachi Véritas de Harvard perform and eating burritos at Felipe’s Taqueria.
Mechistas gathered for the first meeting of the Spring 2013 semester to discuss, led by freshperson Cyndi Campos and moderator Katie Aragon on Jan. 28.
