The New Americans
The New Americans uses stories to illuminate the paths that have brought us to today’s America. What openings and barriers shape The New Americans?
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 19
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Confronting Big Tobacco and the fight to save lives!!! Dr. Stan Glantz
Dr. Glantz conducts research on a wide range of topics ranging from the health effects of e-cigarettes and secondhand smoke (with particular emphasis on the cardiovascular system) to the efficacy of …
Jose Schools the Principal
In our first podcast, Abraham and Jose discuss a student walkout at Sunnyside High School on Nov 4th, 1998 and how it went down. Jose discusses the centripetal force of MEChA that galvanized the bloo…
Royal Chicano Air Force RCAF Rudy Cuellar
A Conversation with Lil Milagro Henriquez about Apocalyptic Climate Resiliency and the creation of the Mycelium Youth Network
Lil Milagro Henriquez, M.A., is a native New Orleanian, whose family survived Hurricane Katrina, and a 17-year veteran of social and environmental justice activism. Determined to be a catalyst for ch…
From Argentina to America, Federico Garcia's "Gusto Gaucho" Argentine Pastry Cuisine
Federico Garcia is from Mendoza, Argentina (land of Malbec wine). Federico emigrated to the United States in 2014, as an industrial engineer by training, his skills and passion were realized in bakin…
Fleeing Russia During Ukrainian Invasion
Luz J. Garcia is the Regional Coordinator for the Latino Coordinating Center for a Tobacco Free California, a statewide program of the California Health Collaborative. Luz graduated Magna Cum Laude f…
Latina Superhero's, a quick chat with creator Kayden Phoenix
Kayden Phoenix is a Chicana Writer and Director from Boyle Heights, California. Upon entering the industry, the first thing she noticed was the industry dominated standard- complete with character ge…
A talk with José Ángel Gutiérrez about La Raza Unida Party
José Angel Gutiérrez, a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party a Mexican-American t…
A discussion with Poet and Writer Briana Muñoz
Briana Muñoz is a writer from Southern California. Raised in San Diego, she spent a lot of her time at her mother’s Mexican folklore dance classes and at ranches where her father trained horses into …
A discussion with Dr. Jerry Garcia about the new Sea Mar Museum of Chicano/a/Latino/a Culture
Dr. Jerry Garcia was born and raised in Quincy, Washington. After graduating high school, he served three years in the U.S. Army at Camp Zama, Japan. Dr. Garcia went on to receive his BA and MA at Ea…
A discussion with Filmmaker, Performer and Educator, Cherise Pascual
A discussion with Community Muralist, Artist and Teacher, Ruby Chacón
Ruby Chacón is a community muralist, artist and teacher. She started her professional art career more than 20 years ago after obtaining her BFA from the University of Utah. She is a first generation …
"Resiliency through Civic Engagement" The Randy Nuñez Story
Son of Petra and Ambrosio Nuñez, by way of South Texas and Sinaloa, Mexico, migrated to Washington State as farmworkers in the 1960s, Randy Nuñez grew up in the Yakima Valley. While the environment …
A discussion with Dr. Cuautemoc Mexica an Organic Intellectual
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 2015
Dissertation: "Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo …
A discussion with Adelita Serena, Environmental Justice Advocate, Danzante with Calpulli Tlayolotl and Teatro Campesino Artist with Baktun-12
Adelita Serena is a Climate Action Organizer in the Capital Region of California. She has lived in Woodland for nearly two decades and grew up in Salinas as part of a farm-working family. Adelita sta…
"The Outburst of the Soul" A discussion with Painter/Artist, Alfredo Arreguin
Born in 1935 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. At age nine, Arreguin became the youngest student at the Morelia School of Fine Art. He has received numerous awards, including a Humanitarian Award by the…
A talk with Nefi Alcazar a student of food
This conversation is about Nefi Alcazar and his love for food, from the making of sushi to the work of crafting dough. Nefi speaks about the rural small town Sunnyside food scene along with discoveri…
Lunch with the Philosophers
How do a pair of small-town guys handle Harvard, lunch with the philosophers, and a March Madness scandal? Find out this week on The New Americans.
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