Week 2 at HCC

This was an exciting week for me hear at HCC as I got the chance to sit in on the El Movimiento board meeting. The EL Movimiento exhibit here at HCC highlights the history of the Chicano Movement here in Colorado, and the board is made of people who were influential during the time of the movement. Some of the board members even worked along side Corky Gonzales! The meeting itself was centered around El Movimiento's next big project: The Year of La Chicana.

The project is still mostly in development but right now the goal of this is to celebrate influential Chicanas in Colorado. They had a brainstorming session where the listed of potential speakers, sights and events. I even networked with these board members, who wanted me to meet some doctors that they know!

Last Friday I also got a chance to attend a the HCC's STAMP camps presentations. The Studens Taking Action Making Progress camp reminded me a lot of the Young Ambassador Program, it aimed at exposing high school students to community leadership and social issues. They even had to create a project centered interviewing people about these issues. The similarites between the programs is great and I think once these students are old enough thye would make great applicants for YAP.

Earlier today I also got a chance to do my community outreach project. I had been looking forward to learning how to work more with children, and it seemed fitting that I would be going to the Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales library. Althought I had a very small audience, the parents and the kids seemed to enjoy the reading, and I'd love to come back and do some more readings for the library. 





Other than that I've been doing smaller tasks for the HCC to pass the time between bigger meetings and projects. I've helped organize artifacts in trunks that we send to classrooms and even learned how to offer surveys to patrons of the museum to get customer feedback. My time here at HCC so far has been great to learn how these institutions work behind the scenes to deliver information to the community, something that I hope will help me in my public health career. 

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