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Documenting Essential Voices/ Hear, Allá, Presente

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Community Partners:

History Colorado

hidden voices

Faculty Affiliates

  • Carlos Jimenez Jr., Media Film, & Journalism Studies
  • Lina Reznicek-Parrado, Spanish Language, Literacy and Cultural Studies

 

About

This project tells stories from the immigrant community in Colorado. The project sent bilingual and heritage Spanish-speaking DU students into the community as interns and trained them to conduct and collect oral history narratives with Spanish-speaking residents from across Colorado in partnership with History Colorado. The project focuses on centering the voices of those often excluded from public discourse, including farmworkers, day laborers, and essential workers, as well as facilitating community-engaged work with immigrant and local bilingual communities. Professor Jimenez and his team have begun to release episodes, which include DU Professor and digital artist Dr. Rafael Fajardo, immigrant artist Brayan Montes, leaders at Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, and the story of Selky Azaah, a former ICE detainee and Cameroonian immigrant, who shares his immigrant journey and fight to win asylum in the U.S. Our podcast officially launched in January 2023 and internships are on-going, led by Professor Reznicek-Parrado.  Student producers include Lucy Richardson (BA in Psychology and Journalism, Spring 2023), Lisette Zamora-Galarza (MS in Marketing, June 2022), and Grayton Newman (BA in Emergent Digital Practices, June 2019).

 

Community Partner: History Colorado

 

Additional internship Placements & Partners: African Chamber of Commerce Colorado, Alzheimer’s Association Colorado Chapter, Aurora Community Connection Family Resource Center, Bicycle Colorado, Casa de Paz, Center for Community Wealth Building, Colorado Changemakers Collective, Colorado Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), Community College of Aurora, Convivir Colorado, El Grupo Vida, GES Coalition, Habitat for Humanity, Juntos 2 College,  Latino Community Foundation, Latino Cultural Arts Center, Mexican Cultural Center Denver, Mi Casa Resource Center, Programa Familiar de Lenguaje, Progressive Promotions, Project Protect Food Systems Workers, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, Westminster Public Schools Foundation, Wezesha Dada Center (WDC)

 

News Coverage: https://www.du.edu/news/documenting-colorados-hidden-voices

Learn more about the project and listen to Hear, Allá, Presente here.