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Dr. Wendy Moore speaks about her family, personal and racial identity as a Christian and mixed race woman, her education and role as a principal, and historical events in the late twentieth century. The interview covers Dr. Moore's childhood and adolescence in Bloomington, California, and her experiences in college at University of California Los Angeles.

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Victoria Spoonhunter was born on September 16, 1995 in Bellflower, CA. Victoria was chosen for the Women of Color in Southern California because she is Native American and identifies as different Native groups such as Navajo, Arapaho, Paiute, and Seminole. She is currently a student studying Biochemistry at California Polytechnic University at Pomona with hopes of eventually going into Animal Science and becoming a veterinarian.

Abstract Vanessa Tyson is currently a tenured Assistant Professor at Scripps College in Claremont, California in the Political Science department. As a Black Feminist scholar, she has focused much of her research on issues of race and ethnicity in policy and political processes. Vanessa published her first book "Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives" in 2016. She was raised in Whittier, California, and has had an interest in politics...

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...