Embracing Our Gente, Raíces, and Identities to Define our Future

1:45pm-3:15pm EST

Presenters: Miranda Canseco & Aurora Vilchis

Session Type: Workshop

Topic: Identities and intersectionality

Description

As a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) that serves 66% Hispanic students and 81% firstgeneration college students, it is important for our Latinx community to feel seen, recognized and heard. Students need to see themselves reflected in their gender, language, culture at the University in the faculty and staff. Key to the success of the ALFSS organization has been the cross collaboration across the campus from affinity organizations to campus departments. Vital relationships with other affinity groups such as our Black Faculty, Staff and Students and the LGBTQ+ Faculty, Staff and Students organization make content for events that support intersectionality. Success has also been found in the various campus departments from Athletics to our campus museum, that support specific student populations. Through the 2021 HHM theme, we are highlighting how the campus community embraces their identity. This session will explore best practices for collaborations and suggestions for programming that highlights intersectionality across the Latinx community and beyond.

Facilitators

Miranda Canseco

Director of Marketing, ALFSS; Marketing Membership and Engagement Coordinator, RAFFMA, CSUSB

miranda.canseco@csusb.edu

Miranda Canseco started at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in 2013 and served in many roles throughout the campus. She earned her undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Leadership from CSUSB. She is currently the Marketing, Membership and Engagement Coordinator at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art. She has volunteered for the Association of Latino Faculty, Staff and Students for seven years and currently serves as the Director of Marketing. Miranda is involved in her community and also serves on the Arts for the Inland Empire collaborative. She is passionate about supporting and serving the Latinx community through programming, education and art.

Aurora Vilchis

President, ALFSS; Program Coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Studies, CSUSB

Aurora has worked at CSUSB for over 16 years and is currently a Program Coordinator for an academic success program for undergraduate first-time students. Additionally, she is serving as the President for the Association of Latino Faculty, Staff and Students (ALFSS). She earned her
undergraduate degree in Sociology with a minor in Chicano/a studies and a Master of Science in Education, Counseling and Guidance degree from CSUSB. She enjoys volunteering her time in university organizations such as ALFSS, Latino Education Advocacy Days (LEAD) and the Faculty/Staff Alumni Chapter (FSAC). Aurora is currently enrolled in CSUSB’s doctoral program in Educational Leadership researching Latina student parents; she plans to complete her Ed.D. by the end of 2021.