Entrada de Colegio: A Pre-Collegiate Program Charting Consequential Testimonio Truths

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eleven
  In Roundtable Session: Experiences of Latinx Families and Latinx Indigenous Youth in Schools and Community-Based Organizations (Table 20)

Abstract

Our testimonio explorations build truth and healing, while interrogating dominant hegemonic educational systems. Working with Latinx students in the Entrada de Colegio Program, we are committed to transformative educational pathways to higher education while building solidarity with our students. The connections we make come from mentorship and commonalities found in our cultural wealth testimonio narratives. Using Community Cultural Wealth, and CRT, the authors examine educational inequities, their institutional aspirations and struggles and vulnerabilities in dialogic and written testimonios. Learning to resist inequitable education, we stand on our consequential ways of knowing. Generating authentic spaces, through experiential knowledge and truth-telling, we unearth our insights and grow, learn, and define our cultural wealth and comunidad (community).

Authors

• Antonette M. Aragon, Colorado State University
  Presenting Author

• Khuc Thi Tra Phan, Colorado State University
  Presenting Author