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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
LATINX GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF NOTRE DAME
LATINX GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF NOTRE DAME
Service has been an important component of my academic formation because I have put the ethics that are so important in my research and teaching into practice through community engagement and activism. I served as the Vice-President of the Latinx Graduate Association of Notre Dame (LGAND) and during my tenure, the leadership committee added a service provision to the organization’s constitution as a core component of the group’s events, in addition to the existing academic and social provisions. We partnered closely with La Casa de Amistad, a nonprofit organization that provides educational, language, and community-building resources for the Latinx community in South Bend, Indiana through fundraising initiatives and collaborative cultural events. We also worked closely with the Institute for Latino Studies and the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame in implementing the organization’s mission of establishing community and fostering intercultural dialogue.
Service has been an important component of my academic formation because I have put the ethics that are so important in my research and teaching into practice through community engagement and activism. I served as the Vice-President of the Latinx Graduate Association of Notre Dame (LGAND) and during my tenure, the leadership committee added a service provision to the organization’s constitution as a core component of the group’s events, in addition to the existing academic and social provisions. We partnered closely with La Casa de Amistad, a nonprofit organization that provides educational, language, and community-building resources for the Latinx community in South Bend, Indiana through fundraising initiatives and collaborative cultural events. We also worked closely with the Institute for Latino Studies and the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame in implementing the organization’s mission of establishing community and fostering intercultural dialogue.
LGAND winter clothing shopping trip for new international students
LGAND winter clothing shopping trip for new international students
La Casa de Amistad
La Casa de Amistad
LGAND event:
LGAND event:
"Bodas de Sangre" at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
"Bodas de Sangre" at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
MENTORING
MENTORING
Museo de la Memoria Historica y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile
Museo de la Memoria Historica y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile
Professor Brix and Emily Normand (Spring 2018)June 2018
Integrating my research and teaching practices is an important part of my methodology and how I approach mentoring. I consider mentoring my students and engaging in their research interests as a central part of my role as a professor. I have worked with my students on a number of their research proposals over the years, several of which have led to successful grant applications to the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Flatley Center for Undergraduate Student Engagement (CUSE) at the University of Notre Dame to support their projects for research abroad. I am excited to be advising two students applying for Fulbright scholarships for 2021 for postgraduate studies and research!
I also strongly support my students' initiatives to participate in study abroad opportunities, and many of my former students have traveled to Toledo, Spain; Puebla, Mexico; and Santiago, Chile to pursue undergraduate coursework at one of Notre Dame's sister institutions.
By demonstrating my commitment to my own research and integrating it with my courses, I show my students that their research matters and that they too can cultivate their skills as growing scholars and use their research to effect positive social change in the world.
MENTORED STUDENTS' RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
MENTORED STUDENTS' RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM
I am interested in integrating further opportunities for community engagement into my teaching practices, and for future semesters at Notre Dame, I am developing components to add to my courses that focus on community-based learning methodologies. I am engaging with the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame and reviewing resources and best practices on how to make this methodology seamlessly combine with the course learning objectives for Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and Cultures. I am always looking for new ways to update and improve my courses and teaching methodologies, and I am excited to introduce this new component!
Spanish Community-Based Learning at Notre Dame
In addition to the updates I will be making to the Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and Cultures course, all of the language-level courses at Notre Dame have an Experiential Learning/ Community Based Learning component as a requirement for the courses. Students are required to write a reflection for each Experiential Learning/CBL experience that they have and the ways in which these authentic interactions help them use their Spanish in a real world context. Below are some sample reflections from students in my classes.
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