La Colaborativa: Empowering Latinx Immigrants in Massachusetts (10.08.24) | Latin American Studies

La Colaborativa: Empowering Latinx Immigrants in Massachusetts (10.08.24)

Join us for a conversation with Sierra Held, Economic Mobility Specialist at La Colaborativa in Boston.

For over 35 years, La Colaborativa has supported Latinx immigrants in Greater Boston. La Colaborativa partners with the community to provide resources to vulnerable community members, including newly arrived immigrants, undocumented families, non-English speakers, as well as low-income tenants and workers. The organization is committed to serving, protecting, celebrating, and uplifting its people, ensuring a brighter future for all.

Learn about the important work happening La Colaborativa is doing to help vulnerable individuals navigate the path from instability to empowerment and to create lasting positive change in the lives of community members.

Moderated by Amb. Paul Hare, Master Lecturer, Pardee School of Global Studies; Interim Director, Center for Latin American Studies

Tuesday, October 8 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
Lunch available. Register below.

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The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

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