Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona
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Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona
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Lupe Carrasco Cardona is an award-winning Ethnic Studies educator of 25 years who was presented the California Teachers Association Cesar Chavez, “SI SE PUEDE” Human Rights Award in 2022 and the National Education Association Foundation Award For Teaching Excellence in 2023. She is a newly accepted member to the CTA Human Rights Cadre and will be charged with providing training for teachers by teachers among the most social justice-oriented educators in CTA. Lupe is the chair of the Association of Raza Educators (LA) and founding member of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition. She earned a BA in Chicanx and Latin American Studies from UCLA and a MA in Curriculum/Instruction, Language and Literacy from ASU. She is now pursuing a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at CSUN (Summer 2024: dissertation La Trenza Methodology: Summoning Ancestors To Uplift Liberated Ethnic Studies). Lupe has spent her life and career re-membering herself through storytelling and helps others on their quest to tell their own stories too.
Guadalupe was born in 1976 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, a place where her family migrated to from their homeland of Chihuahua, Mexico. Her parents were raised as migrant farm workers traversing the US Southwest in search of work in la cosecha. This instilled in her mother a strong will to leave the life of low-wage manual labor. In her father, it stoked a fire in his belly to fight against injustices for working class people of color in the US and internationally. Guadalupe’s parents inspired her to be a life-long learner, an educator and a servant of the people. She is a proud wife and mother and her family upholds the same principles of love of community. |
In Lak'ech
“A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.”
-Gloria Anzaldua
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In Lak’ech
Tú eres mi otro yo. You are my other me. Si te hago daño a ti, If I do harm to you, Me hago daño a mi mismo. I do harm to myself. Si te amo y respeto, If I love and respect you, Me amo y respeto yo. I love and respect myself. -Luis Valdez |
“I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.”
― Sergio Troncoso My weapon has always been language, and I’ve always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they’re flowers, or bridges. –Sandra Cisneros |