Every year, Metropolitan State College of Denver honors Richard T. Castro's dedication to social change through a visiting professorship.
This year's visitor is Delilah Montoya, a pioneer artist and educator at the University of Houston.
Castro, who died in 1991, was seen as a Denver bridge builder, uniting disparate communities through conversations about human rights, social justice and equality.
Montoya builds bridges, too, but focuses her efforts on the Latina community.
She emphasizes the importance of looking inward and understanding where you come from to know who you are.
"When I was 17, after-school programs were just developing, programs teaching us how to think about ourselves and think about art as a Chicana were all very new," Montoya says. READ FULL STORY
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