Latinos in the Heartland

“Latinos and Immigrants
in Midwestern Communities”

May 24-26, 2010
Stoney Creek Inn, Columbia, Missouri

Organizing Committee

Executive Committee:

Conference Director: Domingo Martínez Castilla, Cambio Center & HLAFSA, University of Missouri-Columbia (MU)

Content Advisors:
Corinne Valdivia, Agricultural Economics – Division of Applied Social Sciences; Cambio Center fellow & HLAFSA, MU
Stephen Jeanetta, Community Development; Cambio Center fellow & HLAFSA, MU

Theme Chairs

• Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Christina Vásquez Case, Alianzas/University of Missouri Extension/UMKC Institute of Human Development; Cambio Center fellow
• Education: Lisa Y. Flores, College of Education, MU, Cambio Center fellow; Alejandra Gudiño, MU Extension, Cambio Center fellow
• Health: Benjamin Mueller, University of Illinois National Center for Rural Health Professions at Rockford, Illinois, and Kay Conklin, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, MU; Cambio Center fellow
• Civil Rights: Corinne Valdivia
• Change & Integration: Stephen Jeanetta

Conference Office
Tim Morris, MU Conference Office Manager
Barbara Wills

Kansas City Coordinator:
Mercedes Saint Elin, Alianzas/University of Missouri Extension/UMKC Institute of Human Development

Graduate Assistants:
Chu Chun Fu, MU
Tracey Straight, MU

Planning Committee:

• Kenneth Burke, Washington University, St. Louis
• Kathryn B. Chval, MU Education
• Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri - St. Louis
• Paula Cupertino, University of Kansas Med Center
• Judith Davenport, MU Social Work (Emerita)
• Lisa Dorner, University of Missouri - St. Louis
• Pedro V Dozi, MU Ag Econ
• Cornelia B. Flora, Iowa State University
• Jan L. Flora, Iowa State University
• Mary S. Leuci, MU Community Development
• Louise Miller, MU Nursing
• Alejandro Morales, MU Education
• Ben Mueller, University of Illinois
• Elver A. Pardo, MU Extension
• Carrie L.Tyler, Centro Latino, Columbia, MO
• Rubén Martínez, Michigan State University, Julian Samora Institute
• Tracey A. Straight, MU Journalism
• Jaime Torres-Rivera, Hispanic Leaders Group, St. Louis
• Alisa Warren, Missouri Commission of Human Rights
• James B. Wirth, MU Extension

This page updated:
13 May, 2010