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AWARDS/Recognition: Jefferson Public Service Award, National Conference of Community and Justice Award,
Panama’s President Remón Cantera Gold Medal of Achievement, Council of College Presidents Award, Conflict Resolution
Certificate, National Multicultural Education Leadership Certificate, US Department of Education Leadership Certificate, Dover
Air Force Base 436th Military Airlift Wing Leadership Award, The City of Wilmington Mayor’s Award, World
Conference of Women Certificate, several Who’s Who citations (e.g. The International Biographical Centre Citation
of Meritorious Achievement for Education and Civil Rights), listed on the Rosa Parks Wall of Tolerance, featured in major
newspapers, radio and television such as “School is Cool” TV series
PUBLICATIONS: Over 30 articles, books, legislative
acts and book chapters including “Race and Ethnicity,” “Celebrating Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Diversity
in Delaware,” Quadrangulated Inequality, I Might as well Move to the Moon, “An
Interview with Zoe Valdes,” (Author of Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada), “The Panama Canal Question,”
One Hundred Poems and Other Impressions, “Virginia Brindis de Salas,” Pueblo Latino (Editor, Volumes
1-3, Chicanos, Puertorriqueños y Cubanos), “Back to the Front: Professor/Educator Returns
to High School,” “Skin” (in Outstanding Poets of 1998)“The Race Factor in Employment,”
My Life in Verse, Guidelines for Infusing Multicultural Education into School Curricular, and Co-curricular Programs,
“To Train or not to Train Teachers for Spanish Speaking Communities,” songs, poetry, “The Legacy of a King
is His Dream,” and portions of American Nation (a nationally used high school Social Studies textbook)
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES: Expert Witness, Delaware schools desegregation, Federal Court;
developer of school desegregation plans; led the Governor’s Council on Latino Affairs, the Latino Task Force, the Governor’s
Council on Child Protective Services, and the Delaware Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights for over 17
years cumulatively; Vice-President of Delaware’s United Way; worked with Latinos in prison; a founding member of TransAfrica,
produced “Delaware Hispanics” video program; featured in national bilingual poster “Be Somebody/Quédate
en la Escuela”; started Latino Studies Program and was first director of Latino Affairs at Indiana University; fought
and won two court cases largely pro-se, one desegregating a Chicago community and the other generating employment opportunities
for disenfranchised populations in the State of Delaware; facilitated over $6,000,000 in federal funds for school districts
in Delaware; appointed to legislative committee which resulted in the creation of the Delaware Department of Children and
Family Services;
created a task force to provide assistance and
direction for school and community disenfranchised populations; developed bilingual positions/programs to better address needs
of isolated groups
CONSULTING & TRAINING: Beneficial Bank, The International Broadcasting
Bureau, Literacy Volunteers of America, CTB/McGraw-Hill Testing Project, The US Department of Education, The Latin American
Community Center, Christiana Cultural Arts Center, League of Women Voters, Barnes and Noble, The Mid-Atlantic Presbytery,
The National Association of State Boards of Education, Telamon Corporation, The US Department of Agriculture, Delaware Academy
of Lifelong Learners, Diversity Training Group (DTG), New Castle County Department of Community Services Project, Distant
Voices Touring Theater, The Delaware Nature Society, Head Start, International Training Consortium, Inc., Delaware Heritage
Commission, The Bishop Quintin E. Primo, Jr. Lecture Series, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Upward Bound, The Lutheran
Community Center, Mother African Union FCMP Church, Study Circles, Delaware Association for Healthcare Quality, The McDonald
Corporation, Wilmington Police Department, (Go to website, above, for more.)
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