Hispanic Heritage Month Flag Raising
September 19, 2022
Carlos Ortiz Tribute
November 5, 2019
Latin Pride Heritage Month Theme Lunch
October 9, 2019
Latino/a Caucus End of Year Recognition Ceremony and Elsa Reyes Book Scholarship Presentation
May 9, 2019
- Our annual recognition of members who retired, received a promotion or obtained an advanced degree. The Elsa Reyes Book Scholarships were awarded to three outstanding undergraduate students.
Latina Day Featuring Dr. Jennifer Ayala
Tuesday, March 19, 2020
- The Carlos M. Ortiz Annual Lecture — Honoring the Latinx Arts in Our Lives: Learning History, Creating the Future
September 26, 2018
Dr. Kara Morillo received her doctorate in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland-College Park, where she completed her research on the rise of Latina women writers in mainstream publishing from the 1970s to the present. As a fervent advocate of higher learning, Dr. Morillo has worked in student affairs, academic advising and as a second-language acquisition faculty researcher. As a university educator, she has taught courses on persuasive writing and academic research, global literature by women and literature by underrepresented writers in the United States. She is a proud alumna of Montclair State University, where she earned her BA in English with a minor in Spanish and a concentration in journalism. She is also a former board member of the Latin American Student Organization (LASO). She is happy to return to Montclair State, where she worked full-time as the coordinator of the campus Women’s Center.
Co-Sponsors: The Office for Social Justice and Diversity, The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, The English Department, The Spanish and Latino Studies Department, The Office of the Provost/VPAA, the President’s Commission on Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity.
- The Carlos M. Ortiz Inaugural Lecture: Celebrating Latinx Counter-narratives: Roots, Strengths, and Success
- October 11, 2017
- Featuring Dr. Hector Y. Adames, a Montclair State University alumnus. His lecture is titled “Celebrating Latinx Counter-narratives: Roots, Strengths, and Success.”
- Dr. Hector Y. Adames received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the APA accredited program at Wright State University in Ohio and completed his APA pre-doctoral internship at the Boston University School of Medicine’s Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP). By training, he is a neuropsychologist and currently an Associate Professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus and the Co-Director of the IC-RACE Lab (Immigration Critical Race And Cultural Equity Lab). He is the editor of Latina/o Psychology Today (LPT) and serves on the editorial board of APA’s Division-17 journal, The Counseling Psychologist and the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Dr. Adames is the co-author of a textbook focusing on skin-color and physiognomy among U.S. Latino/as titled Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences, published by Routledge Press. He is the co-author of two upcoming books titled Race and Colorism in Latino Communities: Towards a Racially Conscious Understanding of Latinxs and Caring for Latinos with Dementia in a Globalized World: Behavioral and Psychosocial Treatments. His research focuses on how socio-race, skin-color, colorism, and ethnic and racial group membership influence wellness. He has earned several awards including the 2014 Distinguished Professional Early Career Award from the National Latina/o Psychological Association (NLPA). Dr. Adames is a proud alumnus of the Psychology Department at Montclair State University. You can follow him on Twitter @HYAdames.
- Co-Sponsored by: The Office of Equity and Diversity, The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Psychology Department, The Spanish and Latino Studies Department, The President’s Commission on Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, and Diversity (PCAAEOD), The Office of the Provost/VPAA, and The Office of Residence Life
- Ginetta Candelario, Author of Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity From Museums to Beauty Shops
- September 29, 2016
- Ginetta Candelario is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies and as well as a faculty affiliate of the Study of Women and Gender Program, of the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration, and the Advisory Group for the Steinem and Mankiller School for Organizers at Smith College. She has directed the LALS Program several times, most recently from 2011 to 2014, and is the newly elected Vice President of the National Latina/o Studies Association. Her research interests include Dominican communities and identity formations, race and ethnicity in the Americas, beauty culture, Latina/o communities and identity formations, museum studies, Latin American and Latina feminism. Her first book, Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity From Museums to Beauty Shops, was published by Duke University Press in 2007 and received the 2009 Best Book Award from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association and the 2008 Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies.
Co-Sponsored by: Residence Life, President’s Commission on Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity (PCAAEOD), the Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF), Latin American Student Organization (LASO) and Health Careers Program
- Latino/a Caucus End of Year Recognition Ceremony
- May 13, 2016
- Members who retired, received a promotion or obtained an advanced degree were recognized.
Past Events
- Mirta Ojito, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
- March 8, 2012
- Ojito has received numerous writing awards, including a shared Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a New York Times series about race in America. The native of Havana, Cuba emigrated to Miami in 1980 when she was 16 years old, an experience she chronicled in the critically acclaimed Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, published in 2005.
- Latino/a Caucus’ Second Annual Lecture Series
- March 3, 2011
- Reyna Grande, Crossing Borders: An Author’s Journey Across a Hundred Mountains
- Reyna Grande is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Across A Hundred Mountains (Atria 2006), for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and El Premio Aztlan Literary Award (2006). Her latest novel, Dancing with Butterflies, was published in October 2009 to rave reviews. It received a 2010 International Latino Book Award in its “Best Women’s Issues” category. Born in Mexico in 1975, Grande was raised by her grandparents after her family left her behind while they worked in the U.S. She came to the U.S. at the age of nine as an undocumented immigrant and went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education.
- http://www.montclair.edu/news/article.php?ArticleID=7315
- Latino/a Caucus Book Scholarship Reception
- November 15, 2010
- Junot Diaz, Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2008
- Thursday, September 30, 2010
- Latino/a Caucus’ Inaugural Lecture Series
- March 30, 2010
- Dr. Pedro Noguera was the first lecturer for the Caucus’ Annual Lecture Series. Dr. Noguera’s research addresses issues of education, power, diversity, and social justice. his lecture is entitled Latinos and the Transformation of the US: Integration or Apartheid?