Join us for an engaging panel called “Telling Our Stories: Sharing lived experience as a form of healing and imagining a more just future,” a panel dedicated to individuals sharing their lived experience with different racial, gender, and sexuality identities, led by Christina A. (she/they).
The event is in collaboration with The Phoenix: A Sober Active Community.
This event is FREE and will be held in the MOLAA Screening Room. Register by clicking the button below!
Christina A.
Christina A. (she/they), a lecturer of Ethnic Studies at CSU Stanislaus with a BA in Chicana/o Studies and Psychology from CSU Fullerton and an MA in Sociology from UC Merced. Their thesis work was written on the trial Gonzales v. Douglas, which successfully overturned the 7-year ban on Ethnic Studies in Tucson, Arizona where her father’s side of the family is from. Christina identifies as Yoeme/Pascua Yaqui and has been walking the red road since 4/23/2022.
Malcolm F.
Malcolm F. is a black self-taught engineer who was raised by a single mother in a predominantly white town where he first faced challenges of discrimination and prejudice. Despise the socioeconomic difficulties as well as explicit and implicit racial bias Malcolm never lost passion for engineering and spent countless hours reading, experimenting, building, and learning. Today Malcolm is a successful and seasoned engineer working at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute as a Principal DevOps Engineer.
Lydia Grijalva
Lydia Grijalva aka Lydz (like the hat store) was born in San Bernardino county by way of the LA Chicano movement with roots in Sonora MX. They are primarily from the Yaqui people who were displaced during the Mexican war to exterminate the Yaqui people. Lydz has been a Disability Justice, Queer & Native community organizer along the West Coast since 2008, and now stewards a small business called Sewa Energy Work and Creative Consulting, where they bring the goals of cultural liberation and shared effervescence to campaign work that supports artists and cultural movements. You can listen to their astrology podcast "Why Is Today Like That" on Spotify.
Selket Manipia
Selket Manipia identifies as an African American women, who is same gender loving. As a senior and an active participant in many of the civil rights movements, she is an advocate for all things that balance the scales from injustice to justice. Selket is the first one in her immediate family to receive a college degree. She is a self made individual, and has over 35 years clean and sober.
Meaghan Navarro Walsh
Meaghan Navarro Walsh is a queer person of color of Mexican and Spanish decent. She is on a gender and cultural identity journey as more is being revealed diving into herself and her ancestry. She is married, is in long term recovery, and is neurodivergent.
Melanie Simangan
Melanie Simangan is a first generation Filipina-American born and raised in Northern California. From her days as a college activist to her current nonprofit career and personal journey as a sober woman, she has always had a deep interest in the ways that different identities can clash, complement, and ultimately live in harmony in each individual. Melanie currently lives in Long Beach.