Glendale Chamber
Foundation's sixth annual
Cesar E. Chavez Breakfast Celebrating Diversity
Tuesday March, 31
Mariachi Del Sol

Glendale AZ- GDP-Ed Sharpe> The
Glendale Chamber Foundation's sixth-annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast kicked
off at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday March, 31 at the Glendale Civic Center ballroom. The
breakfast was open to the public but was... SOLD OUT!.

Mas
Inoshita Diversity award winner... - life- highlights
Mas
Inoshita has been challenged by fate in a way that few people can
compare to but he shows no trace of bitterness.
When
Mas was 21 years old, two days from his 22nd birthday while
running the family truck in Santa Maria, CA,---Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
bringing the United States into WWII.
The US reaction to the attack was the herding of thousands of
Japanese immigrants and American born men, women and children of
Japanese descent into “assembly centers” and internment camps.
This terrible act of isolation tore the Inoshito family away from
California but would not tear apart the family and Mas’ sense of
loyalty to the country where he was born.
After
losing almost everything they had, Mas’ family was forced to move to
an “assembly center” and forced to live in a converted horse stall
in a county fairground encircled with barbed wire.
Eventually the family was sent by rail car to Casa Grande and
then to what is now known as the Gila River Indian Community (South of
Chandler).
From
1942 – 1946 More than 110,000 United States residents of Japanese
ancestry---most of them U.S. citizens like Inoshita---were removed from
their homes by presidential executive order and relocated to detention
centers built in isolated areas of the country.
In
spite of all that his family had been through, when his family was
interned in Arizona in WWII----Mas enlisted in the U.S. Army.
He was trained as a translator and interrogator and spent his
days trying to make sense of captured Japanese documents and
interrogated Japanese soldiers.
The
Glendale Chamber Foundation is honored to present the 2009 Diversity
Award to Mas Inoshita in recognition of his outstanding service to his
country through acts of courage, leadership and diversity.
In
spite of the difficult road he traveled, he is a shining example of the
principles that Cesar Chavez stood for. Please join me in congratulating
Mas Inoshita.
The Glendale Chamber
Foundation raised
Funds to
contribute to the
Cesar Chavez
Foundation
for diversity
education!.
Keynote Speaker bio for Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

Discusses diversity
and talks about here WWII documentation project - please see links
below... this is a fantastic undertaking!

Quick Facts on Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
- Born in San Antonio in 1955; raised nearby in
the small town of Devine
• Enrolls at The University of Texas at
Austin, discovers a love for journalism while working at a
Spanish-language radio station and at the Daily Texan; graduates with
honors in 1976
• Earns a master's degree from Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1977
• Begins her professional journalism career
in 1977 as a copy editor and reporter for United Press International
in Dallas
• From 1979 to 1988 works as a newspaper
and TV reporter in Dallas and Boston; from 1988 to 1996 works as
border bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News in El Paso
• Serves on the committee that organizes
and founds the National Association of Hispanic Journalists
• Attends the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow, earning a Ph.D. in
mass communication in 1998
• Since 1999 has spearheaded the U.S.
Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has
collected interviews with more than 450 people; project has included a
conference, an edited volume of academic manuscripts, a play, a
documentary film with educational materials, a general interest book,
and a video, audio and photographic archive.
• Gains national prominence in 2007 by
leading protests that Ken Burns’ forthcoming PBS documentary “The
War” did not include any Latinos; Burns incorporates Latino stories
into the 14-hour, seven-part documentary, airing in September
• Receives the Ruben Salazar Award for
Communications from the National Council of La Raza in 2007; the award
is given each year to an individual who has dedicated his or her life
to promoting a positive portrayal of Latino historical, political,
economic, and cultural contributions to American society
Related Links:
Professor
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
U.S.
Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project
School
of Journalism
http://tutube.nalip.org/_-Maggie-Rivas-Rodriguez-2008-NALIP-Lifetime-Achievement/video/183068/18188.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos/index.html
More infomation
from her Associate Professor Page at the university.
Contact Information:
CMA A6.170C
512-471-0405
mrivas@mail.utexas.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Rivas-Rodriguez has more than 17 years of daily news experience, mostly
as a reporter for the Boston Globe, WFAA-TV in Dallas and the Dallas
Morning News. Her first job was as a copy editor for UPI in Dallas. Her
most recent professional work was for the Morning News state desk as
bureau chief of the border bureau, based in El Paso, covering border
states.
Her research interests include the intersection of oral history and
journalism, U.S. Latinos and the news media, both as producers of news and
as consumers. Since 1999, Rivas-Rodriguez has spearheaded the
U.S. Latino
and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has collected
interviews with over 650 men and women throughout the country. Stories
based on those interviews are written by UT journalism students, as part
of their coursework. The project has several components designed to reach
audiences ranging from school children, to academics, to the general
public. Those components include conferences, books, a two-act play,
(through Arizona State University Public Events and the University of
Texas' Performing Arts Center), educational materials. At the heart of the
project is a rich archive of primary source material, in the form of
videotaped interviews, photographs and other documentation. The project
has enjoyed support from the Austin American-Statesman and the San Antonio
Express-News, from foundations, corporations and hundreds of individual
donors. It continues to gather interviews, largely with the help of a
small army of volunteers made up of professional journalists, academics
and others. It has also relied on partnerships with universities, various
centers, and with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Readjustment
Counseling Service.
Rivas-Rodriguez has been recognized nationally for helping to create
greater awareness of the contributions of U.S. Latinos & Latinas of
the World War II generation. In 2007, she received the National Council of
La Raza's Ruben Salazar Award for Communications, the National Association
of Hispanic Journalists' Leadership Award and the American Association of
Hispanics in Higher Education's Outstanding Support of Hispanic Issues in
Higher Education. She was also named to the DFW Network of Hispanic
Communicator's Hall of Fame in 2006.
Rivas-Rodriguez has long been active since her college years in
volunteer efforts to bring greater diversity to the news media. She was on
the committee that organized and founded the National Association of
Hispanic Journalists in 1982. She began two of the NAHJ's most successful
student projects: a convention newspaper produced by college students and
professionals and a nationwide high school writing contest. The convention
newspaper has become the model for other industry organizations (ASNE,
NABJ, AAJA) as a way to develop mentoring relationships and to train
students.
She received her Ph.D. as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her masters is from Columbia
University's Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelor of journalism
degree is from the University of Texas at Austin.
Recent Courses: PA 388K Latino Policy Issues
(cross-listed with journalism and Mexican American Studies); J349T
Covering the U.S. Latino Community; J366 Journalism History; J320D
Intermediate Reporting; J349T Oral History as Journalism; J395 Covering
the U.S.-Mexico Border and J395 Professional Writing for Journalists.
Publications: "A Legacy Greater than Words:
Stories of Latinos & Latinas of the World War II Generation,"
with Juliana Torres, Melissa DiPiero-D'Sa and Lindsay Fitzpatrick (Austin:
U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project, 2006); Mexican
Americans & World War II, an edited volume (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2005); Brown Eyes on the Web: An Alternative U.S. Latino
Newspaper on the Internet (New York: Routledge, 2003).
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