Andrea-Teresa Arenas

Andrea-Teresa (“Tess” Arenas) is retired from her positions at UW-Madison as a Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Faculty Affiliate and the director of the Office of Service Learning and Community-Based Research in the College of Letters & Science. She has directed the Somos Latinas Digital History Project and is now the coordinator and founder of the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective, a network of faculty, staff, and students from six Wisconsin universities and two out-of-state institutions along with numerous community members who seek to “retro-fit” Latinxs within Wisconsin’s history. The Collective’s research centers Latinxs where they have often been erased, where their contributions to the state have been minimized, and where discrimination and racism they have endured has been ignored. By seeking, gathering and showcasing resources that correct, complicate, and/or diversify the traditional narrative, the work of the WLHC centers Wisconsin’s Latinxs.