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and Thought and Language/Language and
Thought, published by Harvard University Press.
She co-authored Las Mujeres: Conversations
from a Hispanic Community, an oral history
of four generations of New Mexican women,
and has written social and cultural commentary
for In These Times, Arete, Encounters,
Crosswinds Weekly and the Albuquerque
Journal. She served as a national consultant
for the Association of Community Based
Education and is currently a member of the New
Mexico Advisory Council on Arts Education.
Annette Evans Smith
Annette Evans Smith is the vice president of
community relations at the Alaska Native
Heritage Center. She is of Athabascan, Yup’ik,
and Alutiiq descent. She was born in Fairbanks,
Alaska, and raised in the rural community of
Dillingham. After graduating from high school,
Evans Smith attended Stanford University, where
she majored in international relations and
minored in Native American studies. In 1999,
she moved to Anchorage and has worked in
international relations, public relations, and
development for nonprofit organizations,
including Southcentral Foundation and the
Northern Forum, a non-governmental, international
organization. She is currently working
on her MBA at Alaska Pacific University.
Paul S. Flores
Paul S. Flores is a published poet, performer,
and author of the novel Along the Border Lies
(Creative Arts Books, 2001), about the Tijuana-
San Diego border community where he was
raised. Since 1996, he has toured nationally as a
member of the San Francisco-based poetry performance
troupe, Los Delicados, and has been
a featured performer at The Nuyorican Poets
Cafe, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Arts,
Funk Jazz Lounge Miami, the Justice League,
and the National Hip Hop Festival in La Habana,
Cuba. He has also made two appearances on
Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry on HBO.
He is the co-author of three plays in the genre
of hip-hop and spoken-word theatre, including
No Man’s Land with Marc Bamuthi Joseph and
The Fruitvale Project with Elia Arce. As artistic
director of The Chicano Messengers of Spoken
Word, Flores has recently been awarded the
National Performance Network Creation Fund
to develop his newest theatre project, Fear of
a Brown Planet. Flores holds an MFA in creative
writing from San Francisco State University. He
is also the program director of Youth Speaks,
the nonprofit literary arts center for teenagers
in San Francisco responsible for creating Brave
New Voices: the National Teen Poetry Slam.
Sunya Ganbold
Born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Sunya Ganbold
was raised in Moscow during the Socialist
80s. She studied at a Russian high school in
the capital of Mongolia and at King’s School
in Worcester, United Kingdom, followed by a
year as an exchange student in Grosse Pointe
South High School in Michigan. She later
enrolled in the International College at Beijing,
where she studied economics and Chinese
language. At the International College, she
initiated and served as the editor-in-chief for
the first grassroots student newspaper to be
published in English on any Chinese college
campus. She completed her final year of college
at the University of Colorado at Denver (the
International College’s sister campus), where
she received a B.A. in economics with a minor
in online information design. Ganbold’s career
highlights include working as a project coordinator
for the Mongolian Art and Folk Festival in
New York City in 2002 and working as the public
relations and marketing coordinator for the
Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver for almost
four years. Recently, she completed work
as the project manager for Radiotelevisione
Italiana’s (RAI 1) two-hour special on Chinggis
Khan, led by the legendary Piero Angela, Italy’s
most important and well-known journalist.
Anthony J. Garcia
Anthony J. Garcia has been the executive
artistic director at El Centro Su Teatro since 1989
and has been director of the Su Teatro Theater
Company since 1974. He is on the faculty of the
Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies at
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