NOTICIAS | APRIL 2021
Charlas for Board Positions- Happening NOW!
Join us today for the CoCEAL Executive and Steering Committee Position Interest Panel at 12:00 - 1:00 pm.

On this session you will learn about current and past leadership and their experience serving for CoCEAL Executive Team.

2021 Board Elections Invitation from Dra. Reyna Anaya
Dear Colegas, 

I hope this message finds you and your familia in good health. We recognize this past year has changed each of our lives in many ways, and in those changes we honor all the ways you have persevered in advancing the educational success of our Latinx students. We miss our comunidad, and hope you have found support and rejuvenation in the virtual spaces we’ve created together.  

With that said, we are excited to begin the 2021 CoCEAL election process. This year the positions of CoCEAL Secretary and President Elect are up for re-election. I invite each of you to actively engage in this process by running for a CoCEAL Executive Leadership position or nominating a rising colega(s) into one of these roles! Culturally, it is sometimes difficult to see ourselves in these leadership positions and at times imposter syndrome keeps us from believing we have the capacity to serve in these roles. Each of you have the capacity and skills to serve as a leader in this organization! If you have any questions, or need someone to talk with about serving in either of these roles, please know I am here to support and answer any questions you may have as you are considering these leadership opportunities. I hope to receive your 2020-2021 CoCEAL Executive Team Nomination Form today!

GRACIAS, for the opportunity to serve you over the last three years. It was an honor to work alongside you.

Dra. Reyna Anaya
Past-President, CoCEAL
2021 CoCEAL Election Timeline
Spring 2021 Membership Meeting- Moving Past Land Acknowledgements
Did you miss CoCEAL's membership meeting?

Watch the Keynote recording of a heat-to-heart talk (plática) with Grace Alvarez Sesma.
In Curanderismo, a heart-to-heart talk (plática) is the place where one’s heart is safe to have a compassionate and open conversation. Where we are in circle with friends, colleagues, and family. We bring back the saying "Estás en confianza”. In this virtual circle, we will share insights, ideas, worries, and remembrances of customs set aside as a result of colonialism, the demands of academia, and the dominant narrative.

How do we, educators, counselors, and leaders, strengthen our own resiliency? As detribalized Indigenous People what do we remember or need to learn about our culture and customs so that we better serve students?

La cultura cura (culture heals) is a phrase often used today as a way of acknowledging that the cultural and spiritual practices of our ancestors that we once turned away, are now recognized as having a profound positive effect on our mental health and wellness. Our CoCEAL circle will conclude with a closing ceremony.
Special thanks to Mary Sauceda and Andrea Rascon for taking over
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In the News:
LatinX Talk and Latina/o Studies Association Joint Statement Condemning Anti-Asian Violence


By LatinX Talk | March 24, 2021

"These killings reveal the ways that Asian immigrant women's lived experiences are located at the intersection of U.S. imperialism in Asia, xenophobic immigration laws rooted in a history of Asian exclusion, and the exotification and hyper-sexualization of Asian women."
University of California, Irvine Law School Faculty Vote to Adopt Graduation Requirement Requiring Students to Take Race and Inequity Course

By Arrman Kyaw | April 8, 2021

"University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) faculty has voted to adopt a graduation requirement necessitating students to complete a graded course that includes substantial content relating to “race and indigeneity, structural inequity, and the historical bases for such inequity.”
CoCEAL is committed to providing our members to the latest job openings in the state of Colorado. Please know we are working hard to have the latest postings updated weekly so that members can have access to job openings in real time. Concurrently, this job board would not be possible without the participation of our member institutions and other organizations that are committed to the diversification of their workforce and the hiring of latinx people. Please feel free to share the google form link below with your Human Resources departments and other organizations that would like to post job announcements on our job board.