In this presentation, MSU Professor Delia Fernández-Jones will discuss methods of developing community engaged partnerships with grassroots collaborators like those used in the Michigan Historical Marker Program, a public history program with the Latinx and Black communities in Grand Rapids. Prof. Fernández-Jones will help participants understand the opportunities and challenges to establish historical markers in Holland. She will help participants review their end goals in creating and sustaining public history projects, co-create best practices for their specific contexts, reflect on what learning needs to be done before starting the project and during the project, map their allies and potential collaborators, and envision paths forward.
This free program is a collaboration with the Holland Museum and Latin Americans United for Progress (LAUP).
This program took place on Thursday, October 10, 2024
7:00-8:30 pm
This program will be held at LAUP, 430 W. 17th Street, Suite 31, Holland
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Biography: Delia Fernández-Jones
Delia Fernández-Jones is the Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, and Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Letters, Associate Professor of History, Core Faculty member of Chicano/Latino Studies, and the outgoing chair of the Womxn of Color Initiatives at Michigan State University. Engaging a transformative justice framework, her position on the Dean’s Senior Leadership team centers on creating and sustaining equitable relationships and policies within the college. Dr. Fernández-Jones works to help the college deepen its investment in the Culture of Care initiative and make accessible the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership (CPIL) model.
As a historian and scholar of Latinx Studies, she has drawn on her lived experiences as a Latina in Michigan and extensive primary source research, to document and theorize Latinx placemaking in the Midwest. She is the author of the award-winning book, Making the MexiRican City: Mexican and Puerto Rican Migration, Activism, and Placemaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan (University of Illinois Press, 2023). Her book details how disparate Latinx communities came together to respond to social, racial, and economic challenges and simultaneously transformed Grand Rapids and the Midwest from the 1920s to the 1970s. She is also the author of two award-winning articles on Latinxs in Michigan.
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