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Founder & Director
Women on the Border
Board
Members
Elvia Arriola
Donna Blevins
Josefina Castillo
Judith Rosenberg |
Elvia
R. Arriola is a Latina, feminist critical legal theorist. Her
J.D. is from UC Berkeley and she has an M.A. in History from New
York University.
She was formerly a staff attorney with the National Headquarters
of the American Civil Liberties Union and an Assistant Attorney
General in the New York State Department of Law.
She began her law teaching career in 1991 at the University
of Texas at Austin.
Arriola taught civil rights, employment law, family law and
feminist legal theory at the UT Law School from 1991-1999.
In 1997, at a time when the University of Texas was under
extensive public scrutiny over the impact of Hopwood v. Texas (5th Cir, 1996.) which abolished affirmative action
in admissions, Professor Arriola developed a pedagogical experiment
with her students enrolled in a course called Civil Rights Litigation
that questioned the relationship between poor performance by students
of color in standardized tests like the LSAT and distribution of
education resources in the public schools.
Arriola
has served as a visiting professor at St. Marys University
and De Paul University in Chicago.
As a 2001 Humanities Fellow at De Paul University
she produced, in collaboration with the American Friends
Service Committee, a conference on cross-border trade, the Mexican
maquiladoras and the global economy.
Arriola is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. She may be reached
at a.elvia@grandecom.net
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Publications
by Elvia Arriola
Josefina
Castillo
As a sociologist and as a woman, Ive always been concerned
with issues addressing social and gender equality.
I also have a personal stance in non-violent answers to any
type of conflict. These factors have shaped the work that Ive carried out
throughout my life in academic and non-academic spaces mainly around
educational issues. I believe it is through critical
thinking that people can best learn how to perceive conditions that
call for social justice actions in order to improve their lives.
It is through education that people are able to increase
awareness of the world around us, and transform our personal lives
and those of our community. Womens issues are of
particular interest if we consider ourselves not only as life givers,
but also as reproducers of culture.
Professionally I have worked as Adjunct Faculty of Universidad
Nacional Autonóma de México (UNAM) for 7 years, but later on, my
enthusiasm for popular education was encouraged through the work
with Mujeres para el Diálogo, a non-governmental organization based
in Mexico City. This
job offered me an opportunity to learn how to design and implement
workshops, seminars and Encuentros (meetings) with various groups
of women on popular education projects such as literacy campaigns,
womens health, methodology of popular education and improvement
of self-esteem. The work with urban grassroots and peasant women
in Mexico has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life.
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Judith
(Hoodeet) Rosenberg
Coordinator, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF)
Board
Member, Women on the Border
Judith
has lived most of her life in New York City and upstate New York.
Throughout the seventies she worked for the Olivetti corporation.
a multinational corporation that was headquartered in Milan, Italy. In that work she learned how multinational corporations work
the international angle to their profit. In that decade at Olivetti,
the angle was manufacturing, and the targets of the exploitable
labor were women. In the eighties, Judith also worked in an adult
literacy program in Brooklyn with minority women in a program connected
to welfare and welfare reform.
Judith returned to school for her Masters at SUNY-Albany
and obtained her M.A. in English in 1997, focusing her work on 19th
century U.S. women writers.
She has now completed the course work to qualify for a Ph.D.
in English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation topic will be focusing
on the rhetoric of globalization with the central question being,
can the maquiladora worker speak?
Given how new she is to Texas, her writing interest and her
involvement with women on the border, Judith is sure she will never
see anything in life the same way again.
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