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This roundtable focuses on illuminating the experiences of diasporic Indigenous Latine communities in the United States - such as the Indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador - whose representation is often overlooked in discussions about Latine communities in education. Through discussions with Kichwa community members from the Kichwa Otavalo and Kichwa Saraguro people residing across the U.S., this event will highlight the importance of home- and community-based pedagogies as they foster intergenerational transmission of languages and cultures across youth and families in order to navigate challenges faced in schools and in their communities. This event seeks to emphasize the importance of schools supporting these enculturation processes to foster positive ethnic-racial identity development, psychological benefits and academic success, among other benefits , in order for diasporic youth to succeed within their school and broader society.
Speaker Kichwa Otavalo Representatives: Nelly Lema, President of the Kichwa Community of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Taquina Cachimuel – 4th Grade Special Education Teacher at JR Lowell Elementary School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Kichwa Saraguro Representatives: Segundo Gonzalez, Co-Owner, Gonzalez Dairy Farm, Waupaca, Wisconsin. Samia Gonzalez-Quizhpe, 11th Grade Student at Weyauwega-Fremont High School, Waupaca, Wisconsin.
Moderated by Luis Gonzalez-Quizhpe, Ed.M. Human Development and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Thalia Cachimuel, Ed.M. Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In collaboration with the Harvard Ecuadorian Student Association, The Immigration Initiative at Harvard, and the Harvard University Quechua Initiative on Global Indigeneity.