Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Ideas that Serve

Ana Patricia Rodriguez, associate professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, was recently awarded a Foxworth Creative Enterprise Initiative grant to support a Spanish class where she will teach students about the multifaceted American Salvadorian community. Using a wide historical and transnational context, she will start with the 19th century migration and the reasons people left El Savador to the modern day political and economic conditions facing the Salvadorian community. She will also connect the topic to the larger American Latino community locally in Washington, D.C. and nationally in the United States. Students will form teams and engage one-on-one with community partner organizations and members to collect stories for a digital storytelling project to be displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Listen and see Prof. Rodríguez speaking about her project here:

http://www.arhu.umd.edu/news/video/ideas-serve-ana-patricia-rodriguez-spanish

Learn more about the Foxworth Initiative, arhu.umd.edu/foxworth.