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CSWS Research Associate Named to Governor’s Commission
Marcela Mendoza
May 7, 2009—Congratulations to CSWS staff member Marcela Mendoza, who was appointed today to the Oregon Governor’s Commission for Hispanic Affairs by Governor Ted Kulongoski.
Marcela Mendoza joined the Center for the Study of Women in Society in Fall 2006 as a research associate for the Women in the Northwest’s Gender, Families, and Immigration Project. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University with more than 20 years of experience in anthropological scholarship. Dr. Mendoza teaches on indigenous peoples of the South American Lowlands and on international migration and brings to CSWS her strong commitment to collaborative research and community service partnerships, along with the lessons learned during her previous research and advocacy work with Latino immigrants in Memphis, TN.
Mendoza Selected for Nonprofit Leadership
June 25, 2009—Anthropologist and CSWS researcher Marcela Mendoza has been picked as interim, half-time executive director at the nonprofit agency Centro Latino Americano in Eugene, Oregon.
Marcela Mendoza
Services at Centro Latino Americano include children’s programs, multicultural parenting classes, crisis and referrals, transitional housing, counseling, English as a Second Language classes and a jobs program.
Mendoza recently co-edited the “Directory of Bilingual Social Services” with funding through a mini-grant from SELCO Community Credit Union and CSWS sponsorship. Mendoza is the co-coordinator of the CSWS Research Interest Group “Becoming Bicultural: Latino Immigrant Mothers Raising American Children.”