Abstract This interview of 1:00:51 hours is with Suyapa Gricelda Portillo Villeda, PhD, assistant professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o-Transnational Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California at approximately 8:00 pm on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. The interview was conducted by Diana Nightingale, a graduate student in Claremont Graduate University’s M.A. History and Archival Studies program. The interview was part of a final project for a CGU seminar called “Introduction to Oral History and Theory”...

Abstract Dr. Gloria Willingham-Touré is a trailblazer in education and the non-profit world. As one of the early African American graduates from the newly integrated Little Rock Central High School, Dr. Willingham-Touré used her youthful experiences of opposition to help steer her path in higher education, nursing, and traveling around the globe with her work within the Veteran’s Affairs (VA). As an alumnae of Claremont Graduate University with a PhD in Education, she currently helps to lead her...