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Organized by a triumvirate of Latino campus organizations—RAZA, Concilio Latino and Fuerza Latina—the event drew Harvard students and members of the Greater Boston community to a crowded Lowell Lecture Hall...
...latinas who came of age in the Sixties was amazing. But seeing them so concerned was also scary because it means that there is still much to do,” said RAZA President Priscilla J. Orta...
...legitimizing Latino Studies and the study of ethnic groups as a whole,” said RAZA President Priscilla J. Orta ’05. “I don’t think of this as a dramatic breakthrough, but it is a step in the right direction...
...says she felt lost in a place of Harvard’s size, and missed the proactive advising system at Exeter. It was only when Hernandez got involved with RAZA, the Mexican-American student group, that she began to feel at home. “I finally felt that there was a group of people that knew where I was coming from,” she says. “I felt I had found a group where I could belong...
...Exeter, she had never been involved with the small Latino organization, preferring the Tibetan organization and Student Council. As she puts it, “My identity as an ethnic person happened here.” Last year, Hernandez served as president of RAZA, and remains active in the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA Democracy), a model government program for Latin American High School students. She tutors writing and Spanish at the Bureau of Study Counsel, is a Mexican-American representative for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, and is a member of the Race, Culture and Diversity Council...