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Media Contact: Kerri Younger, Communications Supervisor, kyoung@calhum.org
June 18, 2024—(Oakland, CA)—California Humanities is happy to announce two new members of the California Humanities Board of Administrators, Andres Chavez, Govt Director of the Nationwide Chavez Heart, and Deborah Sanchez (Chumash, O’odham and Raramuri), LA County Superior Decide & American Indian Research Program Lecturer at CSU Lengthy Seaside.
Andres Chavez, grandson of Cesar Chavez and govt director of the Nationwide Chavez Heart (NCC), leads the arm of the Cesar Chavez Basis that educates and promotes his grandfather’s legacy throughout the nation. He additionally oversees two historic properties, together with La Paz in Keene, California, the place Chavez lived and labored his final quarter century, a portion of which is now the César E. Chávez Nationwide Monument that the NCC manages in partnership with the Nationwide Park Service.
Chavez graduated magna cum laude from California State College, Bakersfield in 2016, with a BA diploma in Public Coverage and Administration, and has spent most of his life with the farm employee motion. He has additionally served in Central Valley political campaigns and arrange applications by way of California State College, Sacramento serving to farm employees earn their GED levels.
“I’m honored to affix the California Humanities board, Chavez stated. “Humanities are the glue that holds us collectively. I stay up for studying extra in regards to the wealthy and various tales and experiences of Californians, in addition to sharing the distinctive roots and legacies of my neighborhood.”
Deborah Sanchez (Chumash, O’odham and Raramuri) is a Superior Courtroom Decide in Los Angeles and serves as an adjunct school member for the American Indian Research Division at California State College, Lengthy Seaside. Sanchez research and teaches the Šmuwič language (Chumash) and has composed a number of up to date Šmuwič songs that honor Chumash conventional beliefs and lifestyle, together with songs of surprise and mourning.
Sanchez acknowledged, “I’m very grateful to be a part of the board of administrators. I’ve met and interacted with many individuals in my lifetime and have heard and shared tales with them. Via these poems, tales, and visible works I’ve been impressed. These exchanges are what bond us in a strong and loving manner. They assist us to grasp the world round us and encourage us to be higher human beings. It brings me nice pleasure to assist uplift these accounts by way of this work.”
California Humanities is ruled by a volunteer Board of Administrators made up of a various group of humanities-focused leaders from throughout the state. The board as an entire supplies nonprofit governance oversight to the group, and particular person board members act as ambassadors and advocates for the general public humanities inside their communities and networks.
California Humanities, a statewide nonprofit associate of the Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities, promotes the humanities—centered on concepts, dialog and studying—as related, significant methods to grasp the human situation and join individuals to one another with a view to assist strengthen California. California Humanities has offered grants and applications throughout the state since 1975. To be taught extra, go to calhum.org, or like and observe on Fb, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.
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From left: Andres Chavez (picture credit score: Myung J. Chung/LA Instances), Deborah Sanchez.
