This is a free outreach event sponsored by the FDWDAC – open to everyone. We look forward
to a good turnout! The subject of education has been requested more than any other subject.
Please read the attached bio about our speaker. We are so fortunate to have such skilled,
educated citizens in our community who are willing to share their expertise and knowledge.
Please join us.

WHO: Dulcinea M. Lara, Ph.D
Academic Department Head
Professor or Borderland & Ethnic Studies (BEST)
College of Health, Education, and Social Transformation

WHAT: Dr. Lara will discuss work being done by NMSU faculty in the
Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Dept. in collaboration with educators
And students to address the Martinez/Yazzie legal ruling of 2018.

WHEN: Saturday, August 19 – 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Holy Family Catholic Church at 702 Parker Road, L.C.

WHY: Because it Matters. What Can We do?

BIO: Dr. Dulcinea Lara is deeply-rooted, ancestrally, in the region now called southern New Mexico. Dr. Lara
earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California-Berkeley. Her teaching and
research center the critical viewing and questioning of systems and knowledges that are designed and
operationalized to advance some people and groups while creating obstructions for other people and groups.
She is the inaugural Academic Dept. Head for the Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Dept. at NMSU. It is a
department that the community has been asking for since 1969.

Co-Chairs
Pat Aguirre – patricia.ann.aguirre@gmail.com
Rev. Carolyn Wilkins – RevCWilkins@gmail.com