| Date and Time | Friday, May 7th, 2021 1:00pm |
| Speaker | Juanita Tamayo Lott |
| Links | Agents of Change https://newsreel.org/video/AGENTS-OF-CHANGE Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir available at Eastwind Books of Berkeley The SF State College Strike Collection – https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/strike San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive – https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv |
| Description | An original SF State striker, Juanita Tamayo Lott played an instrumental role in the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies. When Juanita came to College, the student population was 78% white. Many of the students of color felt frustrated not just by the lack of diversity amongst students, but by the University’s Euro-centric curriculum as well. Working together, and inspired by local labor and community organizers, they formed the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) and began to dream of an inclusive and transformed College. A poet as well as an activist, Tamayo Lott helped found SF State’s landmark College of Ethnic Studies, before moving on to a long career in Washington, DC. As a federal demographer, she played key roles on every decennial census from 1980 to 2010. Juanita directed the office of Asian American Affairs in the 1970’s for the US Department of Health Education and Welfare. Juanita retired from the US Census Bureau in Washington, DC after planning the 2010 Census. .Her most recent book about the strike: “Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir.” https://forms.bellevuecollege.edu/organizations/home/agents-of-change/ We suggest watching the movie Agents of Change (free at the BC Library Website). |