Youth Voices in El Movimiento and the Struggle for Racial Justice along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountain West

FAIN: AA-289999-23

Colorado Seminary (Denver, CO 80210-4711)
Tom I. Romero (Project Director: May 2022 to present)
Lisa M. Martinez (Co Project Director: December 2022 to present)
Marinka Swift (Co Project Director: December 2022 to present)
Lynn Schofield Clark (Co Project Director: December 2022 to present)

A three-year project to develop community-engaged curriculum on the role of young people in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the history of the Chicano movement (El Movimiento).

This proposed curricular initiative centers and cultivates young people as agents in and storytellers of the struggle for racial justice in Colorado and the Front Range region of the larger Rocky Mountain West. With an initial focus on the history of Chicanx youth activism, it is an intentional university-wide and public good focused humanities-centered curricular collaboration that involves students, faculty, and various community partners in the collaborative work of recovering and documenting the racial justice efforts of earlier youth populations in the region, while fostering an historically informed perspective for racial justice work in the present and future.