Activist author Cherrie Moraga at PCC luncheon
April 30 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm MST
by Carolyn Classen, blogger
UPDATE: New speaker at this luncheon, no longer Dolores Huerta.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
University Park Marriott
Tucson, Arizona
Dear Friends/Amistades of PCC’s Ethnic, Gender, Transborder Studies & Sociology (EGTSS) Dept.,
“Due to recent, nationally publicized events, we have had a change of keynote speakers for the Raquel Rubio Goldsmith Lecture/Scholarship Fundraiser Luncheon. We are excited and proud to announce our new speaker is literary icon, Cherríe Moraga.
Cherríe Moraga is a highly acclaimed and internationally known Chicana/Mexican American feminist lesbian writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and cultural activist. She broke onto the national writing scene in 1981 with the landmark text, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, co-edited with another famed Chicana writer, Gloria Anzaldúa. The text was adopted quickly onto reading lists of Ethnic and Gender Studies programs at universities and colleges across the country and has entered the canon. Her work is also widely used in English, Writing, Theater, and Humanities programs. She has published numerous books and collections, for which she has won many prestigious awards (please see bios, below), all of which makes her one of the most influential Chicana thinkers and cultural workers today. Throughout her work, Cherríe Moraga thinks critically about how race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality intersect and interact with each other to critique systems of oppression and to advocate for social justice, el mero mole of the EGTSS Department and our courses. By accepting our invitation, we are deeply honored by her solidarity toward our students, our community, and Dolores Huerta. We look forward to collectively welcoming Cherríe to our College and our city.
Bios
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cherrie-moraga
Registration is required to attend. Contribute to student success, become a co-sponsor!
Thank you to our Co-Sponsors for their continued support!!!
Chris & Pat Rubio Goldsmith
Office of the Vice President, Desert Vista Campus, PCC
Francisca James Hernández, Ph.D. | she/ella
Head, Dept. of Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies/Sociology (EGTSS)
Faculty, Anthropology & Mexican American Studies
Downtown Campus, Pima Community College
Donate to student scholarships at: pimafoundation.org/EGTS
“¡Sí, se puede!”
Research Associate, Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), University of AZ
sirow.arizona.edu/people/francisca-james-hernandez
Co-editor, Chicana Studies: An Introduction (www.kendallhunt.com/solorzano)
Individual tickets are $125, student tickets $75.