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AAUW-Iowa’s Diversity focus
AAUW-Iowa’s Diversity focus is to help Latino families to value education for their daughters, including planning for post-high school education.
AAUW Iowa is the originator of Latinas al Éxito now in its fifth year. College-educated Latinas (women) develop relationships with middle school Latinas and their families, plan monthly activities, family events, and campus visits to stress the importance of education. With support from AAUW-Iowa, in 2010, it evolved into Latinas/Latinos al Éxito, a non-profit organization with 501(c)3 status committed to motivate and prepare middle-school Latinas/Latinos for post-high school education and the potential for economic security, civic engagement, and a stable family life. Currently there are active projects in four school districts and, with additional funding, are preparing to expand to other communities.
Projects active during the 2010-11 school year include: Latinas al Éxito (for girls) in the Clarion-Goldfield, Belmond-Klemme, Des Moines, and Marshalltown school districts and Latinos al Éxito (for boys) in the Marshalltown school district. The boys project was added as a response to need and the belief that it is good for girls if their male age-mates have similar educational values. |
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All Iowa AAUW Reads
In May 2008 the Cedar Falls Branch Diversity Book Club invited Mark Grey to lead a discussion on T. C. Boyle’s book, THE TORTILLA CURTAIN. Five minutes before the 4:30 beginning time, Mark Grey appeared, sweating, and catching his breath. So much for T. C. Boyle. Mark had been at the Cattle Congress Grounds in Waterloo where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement had raided the AgriProcessors in Postville. Every non-documented worker—fully 20 percent of the town’s population were carted off to the Cattle Congress grounds and in the process disclosed the disastrous enforcement of immigration policies. Our diversity audience had a first-hand report on this example of Federal government indifference. Grey and his colleague, Michelle Devlin were first-hand advocates who assisted these people arrested and prepared for deportation leaving families back in Postville with no work and no way to feed families. We invite you to hear Grey, an anthropologist and Devlin, a public health professor discuss the raid, the interviews of Postville citizens, and the insights small towns across rural America need in the face of rapid ethnic change. POSTVILLE U.S.A.: Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America is the 2011-12 AAUW book for discussion. Copies may be acquired at Barnes Noble, Amazon, and University Book & Supply. Copies will be available for purchase at the April Conference. |