#EventsSoWhite

Melissa Elmira Yingst, Melissa Draganac-Hawk and Roberto Sandoval

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This workshop is intended to be an hands-on dialogue with attendees to discuss how state associations, local event planners, and community members can move forward to ensure their event is appropriate while avoiding #EventsSoWhite.

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Advancing and Advocating for Social Justice and Equity

Lorraine Flores

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In K-12 schools, the students of color depend on school teachers and staff role models in setting a good example of healthy campus environment free of racism.

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Advocating for the Rights of Immigrant DHH Students

Barbara Gerner de Garcia

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How can educators and community members advocate for the needs and rights of their immigrant students? Deaf immigrant children and youth have the right to education. They are not languageless but come to school with their own languages and knowledge.

Brown Brilliance: Deaf Latinx College Student Success Panel

Lissa Stapleton and Armando Castro Osnaya

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Want to go to college, but you do not know where to start? Attend the interactive Deaf Latinx student panel. Current students and alumni from CSUN will discuss their college experiences and demystify admissions, financing, and everyday college life.

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Chicanx Sordo People in Barrix y Language Barriers in the Dominant US Society

Joel Garcia

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In the present, the U.S. society is actively americanizing Chicanx Deaf people in Barrio. The society causes them to normalize in the white Deaf culture and Sign Language from white users’ dominant language. Chicanx Deaf people are on journey with cultural identity and language in the struggles for liberty.

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Cine y Cultura del Sordo

Salvador Alejandro Gallardo Enriquez

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TBA

(CEU is not provided for this workshop.)

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Colorism: Stratification of Mestizaje and Within-Group Racial Discrimination

Paola Morales and Roberto Sandoval

 

We will discuss the impact of the Americas’ colonial history as it has left an imprint of colorism on lives of its surviving descendants. The legacy of colorism has stratified our societies by skin-color prejudice and discrimination in the Americas.

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Creating Access to Justice for Latinx DDBDDHH Communities

Talila "TL" Lewis

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The U.S. imprisons more people than any nation in the world. People with disability are the largest "minority" population in jails/prisons. Black & Latinx people are disproportionately suspended, arrested & imprisoned. Come learn how to protect yourself & your family.

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Deaf/Hearing Team Interpreting in Spanish Influenced Settings

Roberto Sandoval and Arlene Narváez

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This workshop will provide participants with an overview of how Deaf and hearing interpreters can work together effectively to meet the needs of their consumers in three-person interactive situations. Discussion will include the DI/HI teams and roles, functions, and processes.

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Disability Justice

Callie Frye

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How can our communities transform beyond access to harmony? Many of us are not fond of using and embracing the term 'disability'. In my presentation, you will understand why we should preventing further structural oppression.

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Domestic Violence in Latinx Communities

Aracelia Aguilar

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We will discuss Domestic violence and the Power & Control Wheel and discuss how that affects the undocumented Latinx. Also, society's expectation of gender and cultural roles and how that leads to gender based violence. We will be doing center to margin activity to help them understand and identify privileges that are set by society and do a puzzle of the legal system to be understand how difficult it is to navigate the system.

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Education and Employment: Intersection of Race and Disability

Carmen Varela

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Presentation will consist of a power point presentation with statistical data and research on the topic area. Presenter will engage and encourage the audience to share their experiences accessing higher education and employment.

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Embracing Your Identity and Owning It

Gabriel Silva

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I will be talking about my journey as a closet person who was outed by other people and later learned to accept who I am and made some major life changes by accepting who I am and embracing it.

(CEU is not provided for this workshop.)

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Employment in Latinx Community

Roberto Cabrera and Roberto Solazrano

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With unemployment in Latinx DDBDDHHLD community being so high, this covers employment services and programs that are available to Latinx DDBDDHHLD community members, including to their families.

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From the Olmecs to the Aztecs

Armando Castro Osnaya and Ernesto Escobedo

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From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, different indigenous sign languages have co-existed with pre-Columbian spoken languages in Mesoamerica. Foster a deep understanding of our Mesoamerican deaf history of heritage sign languages by learning from the histories of deaf indigenous people.

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How to Translate/Write about Deaf in Spanish        

Rafael Trevino

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Increasingly, interpreters and Deaf people are asked to prepare texts in Spanish on Deafness. In this workshop, you will learn translation theories and tools, and you will practice translating and revising Spanish texts. Participants must have basic Spanish writing skills.

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Intuitive Tarot Reading

Gia Reyes

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Tarot cards are a divinatory tool used to retrieve the messages and guidance from the higher consciousness, angels, guides, and subconscious to make decisions that are in the alignment with your true soul, purpose, and heart.

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Necesito Ayuda! Communicating/Instructing Spanish Speaking DHH Families/Students

Etta Avila

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This presentation is designed to help D/HH teachers who are increasingly working with Spanish speaking families. Through research and practice I have found and developed resources to facilitate communication with families and better instruction in the classroom.

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Mindfulness 101: The Great Invite

Rachel Postovoit and Roberto Sandoval

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This will be a panel discussion on mindfulness in the community--will introduce former participants and the benefits, learning, and application of mindfulness especially in the latinx community.

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Multicultural Codas of Color: Bimodal Heritage Languages, Intersectionality, and Language Brokering

Paola Morales

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Do you have or want children? If yes, come and learn about Codas born to Deaf parents of color. Learn about how your child identity is shaped, supported. We'll discuss bimodal bi/multilingualism, and gifts and privileges of language brokering.

 

La Pragmática

Arlene Narváez

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Communication includes many components.This presentation on pragmatics will discuss how people use language, why they make particular choices and discuss how communication, culture, and intent of a message comes together.

 

Life as an Artist in a Hearing World

Rolando Siguenza

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Interact with participants to understand the world of an artist and discuss how to embrace life and be proud of being a person.

(CEU is not provided for this workshop.)

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Let DATA Be Your Voice Instead of Hands

Salatiel Pineda

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To advocate for Latinx Deaf needs, we need documentation of our experiences. We will consider a current Deaf scientist’s approach of doing research on language deprivation. Community activists will learn how to collect data influencing policy changes for nuestra comunidad.

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LSM Does Hollywood

Crescenciano Garcia

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Crescenciano and the panel will discuss how they were able to portray LSM on Hollywood's television show Switched At Birth.

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Overlooked Us?: DeafBlind Community

Jaspar Norman, Yashaira Romilus, and Roberto Cabrera

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This description will be used in the conference program book and website. Describe the key topics, skills, concepts and activities of the event.) In the DeafBlind community, touching is one of the critical communication tools, so we will introduce ProTactile in communication. The presentation will have an opportunity to explore intersectional identities within the Latinx, DeafBlind community.

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Transformation Machismo to Decolonize Love

Joel Garcia and Roberto Cabrera

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For Latino, we are the patriarchy from a definition of a male colonizer’s character. Our behaviors underlying the belief of machismo defines the society. We need to end that and can transform our attitude to be in decolonized love.

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The Crash Course in Leadership Everyone Needs

Gilberto Partida and Arlene Narváez

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Presenters will discuss key leadership principles that can be applied to our personal and professional lives. Discussion will lead to what type of leader you want to be and participating in the field.

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The First 150 Years: Celebration of LSM

Alvaro “Al” Jimenez and Victor Moreno Flores

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Lengua de Señas Mexicana (LSM) began 150 years ago at Mexico’s first deaf school in Mexico City. LSM was officially declared a “national language” in 2005. The aim of this presentation is to recognize the history and celebrate LSM.

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The Exhibition of the Exceptional DDBDDHHLD Latinx Artists

Clifford Earl Terry and Roberto Sandoval

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Notice how there is not much opportunity to focus on Latinx DDBDDHHLD Artists? The exhibition of Latinx DDBDDHLD Art Movement is showcasing at the RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center. The aim of this presentation is to celebrate and recognize the artists and their artworks.

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Who are White Latinx and White Presenting Latinx?

Elena Figuera Ruiz

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The concept of "white Latinos" and "white presenting Latinos" may be new for many people, but both white Latinxs and white-presenting Latinxs have existed ever since original European colonialism 500 years ago, and being aware of these privileges is crucial.

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Who Me, Coconut?

Melissa Yingst and Socorro Garcia

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Being called a coconut can be awakening experience. Come and understand what it means to break the coconut shell and embrace your true Latinx roots. This will be an interactive and open dialogue about the importance of embracing your roots.

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Yin and Yang of Trilingual Interpreting

Rachel Postovoit and Crescenciano Garcia

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This workshop will introduce the seasoned trilingual strategies and tools for advancing their practice beyond the foundation skill set. Finally, participants will learn holistic ways of self-care to enrichen their work.

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You are not Mexican but Spanish; Light Skin Privilege in Latinx Communities

Carla Garcia-Fernandez

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The historical socio-racial classification system helps us understand how colorism molds our way of thinking and how we perceive others within our Latinx communities. This talk enables us to understand our true history, and how our past affects our present.

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Your Name, My Name: We EMBRACE Our Names

Milmaglyn Morales

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This is information sharing presentation to help our professionals to understand how important it is to embrace our students' given, unique names.