College of Letters & Science
When the New York Times’s Jazmine Ulloa needed background for a story on the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), she turned to UW-Madison’s Benjamin Márquez. The Times noted that LULAC, the country’s oldest Latina/o civil rights organization, had never made an endorsement in a Presidential election until 2024, when it endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris. …
Armando Ibarra, a Professor with the School for Workers and former Director of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, was quoted in a recent story on Centro Hispano of Dane County published by the Capital Times. The story describes the work of Centro Hispano, the leading nonprofit organization serving Latinx in Dane County. In an …
CLS faculty member and former director Armando Ibarra has won the “Hispanic Achievement of the Year” award from “La Movida” Radio, Madison’s Spanish-language radio station. The station will present Dr. Ibarra will be presented with the award at its 11th annual Hispanic Heritage month luncheon, October 13, 2021 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention …