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2024 Board of Directors
Working Board
Anahid Kassabian - President
Published music scholar, special emphasis, Middle East.
James and Constance Alsop Chair Emerita
University of Liverpool
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Dr. Nancy Barceló – Outgoing President
Former President, Northern New Mexico College
Former Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota.
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Dr. Norma Cantú - Secretary
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University
Past President of the American Folklore Society
Aida Hurtado
Distinguished Professor and Luis Leal Endowed Chair
Department Chair and Senior Advisor to the Dean, Division of Social Sciences
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lupe Gallegos-Diaz
Co-Chair, Latinxs and the Environment Initiative
Division of Equity Inclusion
University of California, Berkeley
Board Chair,
Diana Harris
Former IT professional at University of Iowa, College of Engineering
Board member of Miracles in Motion
Advisory Board
Jewelle Gomez
Author and Playwright
Former Director of NYC Arts Commission
Margo Okazawa-Rey
Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University
Equity and Diversity Consultant
LeAnne Howe
Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature English
Director of the Institute of Native American Studies
Anahid Kassabian is a retired academic, activist, and film programmer. She taught primarily at Fordham University and University of Liverpool, where she was James and Constance Alsop Chair. Her scholarly areas of interest were film music, background music, sound studies, women’s studies, and Middle East studies, and she was also active in her union on the negotiating team, doing casework, and serving as diversity officer. She worked with the Liverpool Arab arts Festival for a number of years, And she’s been a lifelong supporter of Aunt Lute books in a variety of ways.
Anahid Kassabian
Norma E. Cantú
Award winning poet and author, Dr. Norma Elia Cantú was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas to a Tejana mother and a Mexicano father. She began her academic career fifty years ago as a teaching assistant at what is now Texas A&M University, Kingsville, where she earned her MA in English. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska and taught at what is now Texas A&M International University in Laredo, at the University of Texas, San Antonio and the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she teaches courses in Latinx Studies, Folklore, and Creative Writing. Her creative writing focuses on the US-Mexico Border and includes her novels Canícula and Cabañuelas as well as a poetry collection, Meditación fronteriza. Her most recent publication is the anthology Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers.
