I attended my 20 year high school reunion this weekend. It was crazy and more than a little surreal. High school is such a strange transitional time. You move from barely being a teenager to almost being an adult, with none of the self-directed growth you can do in college. Basically, you are thrown together with a lot of people you probably would never have chosen. And all together, you must survive four years of …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Wrong Kind of Brown
Followers will know that Deldelp Medina and I have a session submission in to SXSW. One of the things that SXSW is very clear about is that your session should answer 5 questions that you need to articulate before you can submit. The five questions we came up with are these: Why isn’t our generation of Latinos considered exceptional? How do we become visible in the media landscape without being reduced to the lowest common …
Welcome Back to Public (Private) School
I went to Catholic school from K-12, so when Miss Thing started at our local public school last year, there were a number of things that didn’t really phase me that seem to give folks a lot of consternation. First, I don’t really worry about what teacher she is going to get. There was only ever one class at each grade for me from K-8, so there was no choice. Maybe I just haven’t been …
SXSW Really? Yes.
I recently developed a proposal for SXSW with Deldelp Medina, one of the smartest people I know. If you knew my friends, you would know that this is really saying something. Our proposal is about the confluence of stereotypes that keeps people like us – Latinos of our generation – out of leadership, power and influence. You can read more about it at the SXSW panel picker. Family and friends keep asking why. Why this, …
