Local nonprofit Voces Unidas de las Montañas kicked off its 2022 leadership program in February with a selection 14 Latino and Latina community leaders from the Western Slope.
Local nonprofit, Voces Unidas de las Montañas, kicked off its 2022 leadership program in February with a selection 14 Latino and Latina community leaders from the Western Slope.
Carbondale’s MinTze Wu recordign her story for the new podcast “Origin Stories.”
Carbondale’s Amy Kimberly recording her episode of the new podcast “Origin Stories,” produced by the Women’s Voices Theater Project.
Kristin Carlson recording her episode of “Origin Stories.”
Members of the Women’s Voices Theater Project photographed in 2019. The group canceled its 2020 and 2021 in-person shows due to the pandemic, and has instead produced two storytelling podcasts.
Women’s Voices Theater Project members Trary Maddalone LaMee, Julie Comins Pickrell, Cassidy Willey, and Gabriela Alvarez Espinoza in a 2019 rehearsal. IF YOU LISTEN …
To hear the first episode of the Women’s Voices Theater Project podcast “Origin Stories,” visit http://www.voicesrfv.org
Photo of Bobby LeFebre, Colorado s youngest and first Latino Poet Laureate.
Bobby LeFebre wore a necklace with large, red cylindrical beads over a gray cardigan and although he was sharing his story and poems virtually, audience members could feel his words resonate as if he were in the same room as them.
“My great grandparents’ generation, they were like ‘well, this name seems kind of like it can also be kind of gringo, like we could fit in a little bit better than maybe others can like a Martinez or Ramirez, or other Spanish surnames that are more common,’” LeFebre said. “You could do a lot with this French name so they started pronouncing it with more of this English sounding way to kind of like blend in to whiteness and this culture that was dominant and attached to power and privilege.”