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.
This is a new segment in which MEChA de Yale will recognize one outstanding Mechista every week! Emma Fallone, Class of 2016 Residential College: Ezra Stiles Hometown: Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee) High School: Whitefish Bay High School Why did you join MEChA? I am Latina, and grew up in a very ethnically homogeneous area (95% Caucasian, maybe 2% Latino). So, throughout high school, I never really had much of a…
