El Centro Chicano y Latino

🪇 CUMBIA FEST 2024 🪇 Thank you so much for stopping by our booth and decorating maracas! 🪇 ❤️ ⭐ We are so happy to join you all for the amazing performances last Sunday. Special thank you to Stanford Live team for putting this event on and all the partnering organizations ❤️🪇 🎊 📸 credits to Ken Hamel Photo 🪇

⭐️Welcome to El Centro Chicano y Latino! ⭐️
El Centro Chicano y Latino works to support students academically, personally, socially and culturally. Programs are for students to be given the opportunity to explore Chicano y Latino culture, history and traditions and to use this understanding to work with other ethnic communities in the U.S. and around the world. Swipe to learn more about what we value & we hope to see you in community this upcoming school year! ❤️⭐️

⭐ WELCOME OUR NEW PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER SANDRA ⭐ Please give a warm welcome to El Centro’s new Project Pipeline Manager Sandra B. Galeas. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Sandra [she/her/ Ella] is a SoCal Latina with Colombian and Honduran roots. She has prioritized her professional career in higher education to support those who do not have access to resources and mentorship as their peers. Sandra strives to identify and address vital intesectionalities in student communities in the current social and political climate. In her free time, Sandra enjoys attending music gigs, going on architecture tours in new cities, and engaging in community events. Please stop by and say hello to Sandra! We are so excited to have her join our team ⭐ ❤️

🌟Get ready to dance the night away at Cumbia at Frost! 🌟

Join us on July 21 at the Frost Amphitheater for an evening of amazing performances and family-friendly activities. 🎶 Stop by the El Centro Chicano y Latino Painting booth and decorate a maraca! Hope to see you there❤️✨

🎟️ Tickets available now!

We want to give a special thank you to all of our volunteers for our Nuestra Graduación 2024 celebration! ⭐ 🎉 🎊 🫶🏽 Thank you so much for volunteering your time and dedication to help us put on this special event for our 2024 graduates. We couldn’t have done it without all of your support. Thank you! ❤️ ⭐

🌼Spring Quarter Recap🌼: Thank you comunidad for joining us this quarter at all of our events ✨From ambientes to cafecitos to self-care workshops, we hope you enjoyed every event and we were happy to see you all in our space ☺️❤️

We look forward to seeing you all back here in the fall 🫶🏼 Good luck on your last finals this week🍀

✨ El Centro x LSP x FLISSC Collab✨ Thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday to our Alianza of communities event! We hope you enjoyed the delicious raspados 🍧 and elotes 🌽 on the sunny day 🌞 Good luck finishing up this final stretch of the quarter!

☀️La Alianza of Communities☀️
The FLISSC, El Centro, and LSP are hosting an end of the year celebration at Meyer Green this Saturday, June 1st!
We invite you all to join us for some delicious Mexican street corn🌽(elotes and equites) and raspados 🍧 (shaved ice). Bring your friends and make new ones here with la communidad before the year ends!
RSVP HERE (check email):
https://forms.gle/uUvwtjWXURapyTMz7
Saturday, June 1st, 2024 | 1 - 2:30 PM
Meyer Green! We hope to see you there❤️‼️⭐️

Thank you all for coming to our Cafecito today! We were happy to have you at our final cafecito of the quarter ❤️ We hope you enjoyed the delicious treats and drinks 😋 We will be back next year...

🎨 🖌️ Throwback Thursday 🎨 🖌️ to our CurArte event with Kashi! It was such an amazing experience for students to give themselves time to meditate and express themselves through art! Thank you so much to those that attended. We are so excited to display the creative work done around our Centro! Special thank you to Kashi for leading this amazing event and for reminding us to take the time to really check in with ourselves. ☀️ ❤️ 🎨 🖌️ ⭐

Hello Comunidad ✨ Join us this Friday for Cafecito Nicaraguense 🇳🇮 We will have delicious pastries and coffee 🤤 from 10am to 11am! Do not miss out on our FINAL Cafecito of the year ‼️ We hope to see you there 🤩

‼️El Centro Chicano y Latino’s Pre-Professional Student Staff Application now Open!‼️ The pre-professional student staff team provide logistical and program support for El Centro Chicano y Latino at Stanford. Student staff members work alongside the professional leadership team during the academic school year and are arranged into committees that work collaboratively to fulfill and promote El Centro’s mission and vision. Applications are due Monday, June 3rd 2024 by 9AM (PDT)⭐️ here’s the link to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBcKoVPbqlXh1m02IJHINmSF-QC7PdNdb7qhYUX7phkHjk4g/viewform

We are happy to be collaborating with the Stanford Archaeology Center in their exhibit opening celebration! 🌟 Join us Friday, May 31st to celebrate the opening of De la Tierra: Indigenous Ceramics from West Mexico Transcending Time and Space, the newest exhibition of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections. Come to see the new exhibit, hear from the student curators, and enjoy Mexican food and music! 🎶🇲🇽

De la Tierra was curated by students in "Introduction to Museum Practice," taught by Curator and Assistant Director of Collections, Dr. Danielle Raad. The exhibit features two collections: contemporary sculptures from Ocumicho, Michoacán, and pre-contact archaeological ceramics from West Mexico. Themes explored include Indigenous creativity, religious syncretism, identity formation, gender dynamics and authorship, and the ethics of collecting practices.

⭐️ Nominate a Graduating Senior for the Burciaga Award ⭐️ We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2024 Cecilia and Tony Burciaga Community Development Award. This award pays tribute to Cecilia and Jose Antonio Burciaga and honors their numerous contributions to Stanford University and the Chicano/Latino community.

The award recognizes a graduating senior for their level of involvement and motivation in their work within the student and external community. Any member of the Stanford community may nominate a graduating senior by submitting a nomination to El Centro Chicano in the spring quarter of every academic year. The deadline for nominations is Monday, May 27, 2024, at 11:59 PM (PDT).

The award will be presented at Nuestra Graduación, the Chicanx/Latinx Graduation Ceremony, on June 15, 2024. To nominate a deserving graduating senior, please complete the nomination form at this link: https://forms.gle/yyWckVscLVFooBmV9 🎓‼️⭐️❤️

⭐ Thank you so much for joining us this past Friday for our Cafecito Salvadoreño⭐ Stay tuned for our next Cafecito on Friday May 24th! 🤭 ❤️ ‼️

‼️ Volunteer to help make Nuestra Graduacíon 2024 possible!‼️ The Ceremony will be held: Saturday, June 15th 2024 (2:00pm) at Stanford Memorial Church. All volunteers will be eligible for extended housing through commencement weekend! If you are interested volunteering, please fill out the form below! 👇

https://forms.gle/B6WPSwdMTJ19MYwg7
Sign up by Tonight (5/9) 11:59 PM (PDT)

⭐️IMPORTANT: All volunteers will be required to attend a MANDATORY meeting in early June which may be combined with the rehearsal preliminarily scheduled for Thursday, June 13, 2024. For questions or more information email [email protected]. ⭐️

CAFECITO IS BACK‼️✨ Join us this Friday for 🇸🇻Cafecito Salvadoreño🇸🇻 from 10am to 11am ✨ Don't miss out on delicious treats! 😋

Join us on May 9th for a screening and discussion on The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo from 5pm- 8pm in the Jaime Miranda Lounge located at El Centro. We will be joined by journalist Karla Casillas Bermúdez for a post film Q&A. Karla was the primary journalist behind this story. We are so honored and excited to have her visit El Centro. Hope to see you there! ❤️

🌟Join us this Wednesday to hear about the ongoing scholarly work of three of our Graduate Scholars-in-Residence 🌟 Presentation will take place in the Jaime Miranda Lounge, please RSVP as we will be providing lunch!

Thank you for joining us this Saturday at our Ambiente Picnic! It was nice to see everyone come out during the sunny weather 🌞 We hope you enjoyed the delicious raspados and chicharrones 🍧😋 Stay tuned for more events this quarter 🤩

Flashback to this past Friday when José Hernandez came to visit El Centro ! 👨🏽‍🚀 We are so thankful to have heard his story and enjoyed dinner with him. It was a pleasure to have him in our space 🚀😉

Congratulations to our new Admits!! El Centro wants to give you a warm welcome to the farm 🌲 Join us this Friday for our Open House 🏠 There will be some delicious snacks and refreshments for you to enjoy while you tour our space and meet some of our wonderful staff! 🌟

The sun is coming back to campus☀️! Last fall quarter our Communidad Picnic brought together undergraduates and graduates students, where they got to know each other while enjoying some empanadas, paletas, and outdoor good vibes 🌸🌷🌺🌼🌳🌲🌿

We are bringing it back this Saturday as part of our Ambiente programing. You don't wanna miss it!

Location: El Centro Chicano y Latino Plazita 2-3pm April 20th.

For accommodation, email [email protected]

Shoutout to 's Ruby Hernandez and Miguel S. Jimenez phenomenal "Carreras Sin Carreras" workshop! Students have never felt this prepared and encouraged to take on their resume building, elevator pitches, and professional conversations to the next level!

Thank you for everyone who came yesterday night. We hope these workshops not only helped you for the Spring Career Fair, but also for your future professional endeavors!

Hello Comunidad !! We are excited to partner with M.E.Ch.A for an incredible event with Jose M. Hernandez! He is a first-generation Mexican-American astronaut 👨🏽‍🚀🌟 and will be joining us this Friday from 6:30-7:30pm at the Tressider Oak Lounge! You do not want to miss out hearing from an amazing inspiration! 🤩

🌺🌼THIS SATURDAY 4/20! Come to El Centro's first Ambiente Picnic of Spring quarter! 🌺🌼🌸🌷

Ambiente seeks to create a welcoming space to foster connections, allow students to de-stress, and facilitate collaborative learning, feel comfortable, supported, and engaged with their peers. 🌳🌲🌿

LOCATION: Picnic will take place outdoors in front of El Centro!

El Centro Chicano y Latino invites you to a special event in collaboration with Medicine for Nightmares. This month, they will be featuring our Graduate Scholar in Residence, Xavi, and our wonderful director, Elvira for a poetry reading! ✨ This event will take place on Thursday at 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. We hope you can join us there!

Join us next Monday for our Spring Career Fair Workshop - Carreras sin Barreras 💪🏼 We will be joined by the CareerEd center and BACE to help students with career support ✍🏽 There will be pizza provided so do not forget to RSVP!! 🍕 Link can be found in our bio 🔗