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Jose Cortez Oral History
This is an interview of Jose Cortez who is from Lakeside California and a Chicano organizer with the Party For…
The San Ysidro Port of Entry is one of the most heavily trafficked border crossing in the world. A few miles to the north, the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) detains migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. These carceral spaces shape the social fabric of the region and manifest in mundane forms, such as the borders that mark the contours of neighborhoods and border checkpoints. These oral histories describe the experiences of living in and navigating these spaces.
This is an interview of Jose Cortez who is from Lakeside California and a Chicano organizer with the Party For…
Pedro Rios, who’s hometown is San Diego, uses he/him pronouns and he is part of the American Friends Service Committee’s…
I met Justin Akers Chacón through Detention Resistance, one of the many ways in which this 50-year-old Chicano educator, author,…
Jennifer Frost Moreno (she/they) is an activist and Chicanx Art History professor who is involved in Armadillo’s Search and Rescue,…
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Maria Elena Alvarado, who is my mother. She is 44 years old, a…
Marko Gutierrez is an AVID coordinator and AP Language teacher at San Ysidro High School. He graduated from San Diego…
Monique Vasquez was born in San Diego and is a soon-to-be college student of San Diego State University. Born to…
Cindy Rocha is one of the muralists of Chicano Park’s new mural commemorating Anastasio Hernandez Rojas and his family. She…
I had a great pleasure to interview Jess Whatcott. Whom pronouns are they, them, theirs. Dr.Whatcott was born on January 14…
This interview was given by 29 year old San Diego native Stephen Graham Hajosy. Graham was born and raised in…