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Feb 27, 20228 min

First Generation and Representation, Entering the Literary World

First Generation and Representation, Entering the Literary World, Interview with Jose Hernandez Diaz

Sep 3, 20211 min

How to return to your hometown—and give back—after more than 20 years away

by Olga Rosales Salinas Anytime I’m in a grocery store, at a bakery, or in a restaurant and I come across strawberries, I think about my...

Jun 3, 20216 min

Interview with Alejo Padilla, GRIT

Interview with Alejo Padilla, Founder of G.R.I.T. and Assistant Principle at North Tahoe High School.

Apr 21, 20218 min

Interview with Baruch Porras-Hernandez

by Olga Rosales Salinas *Tener ganas. What are ganas, and how do they work? Baruch Porras-Hernandez shares his struggle as an immigrant...

Apr 5, 20216 min

Interview with Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, Emeritus, David Perez

They write a few lines or pluck out a tune and then think, “What’s the point?”...And then they give up... Don’t do this.

Feb 11, 20214 min

Paying it Forward, by Elizabeth Castillo

The first of six daughters to attend college. *Elizabeth Castillo, Homecoming Queen, Class of 1992, with parents, Abel and Maria Rosales....

Jan 20, 20214 min

Demolition And Spring Break

About The Rosales Sisters’ Scholarship *San Francisco Bay, 1984. Abel Rosales, his five daughters from the top-left, Elizabeth, Nancy,...