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Topics
Community Healing
Current Events from a Latino Perspective
Healing Traditions
Healing Women
Human Rights Issues
Indigenous Issues of the Americas
Origins and Migrations
Writing as a Form of Healing
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Patrisia Gonzales and Roberto Rodriguez have been writing the syndicated
Column of the Americas, distributed by Universal Press Syndicate,
since 1994. The writers offer a unique perspective of the Americas—on
topics of general interest as well as highlighting issues that specifically
affect the peoples of the continent.
Former residents of El Paso, Texas, and Albuquerque, N.M., they
were inducted into El Paso’s 1997 "Writers of the Pass
Hall of Fame” and received the 1998 human rights award from
the Albuquerque Human Rights office. In 1998, they served as University
of California Regents lecturers at the University of California,
San Diego. Also that year, they uncovered a series of maps that
have located the “Ancient Homeland of the Aztecs” in what
appears to be present-day Utah. This revelation is now the subject
of two documentaries, “Going Back to Where We Came from”
and “In Search of Aztlan,” and three forthcoming books.
A compilation of their columns, Gonzales/Rodriguez: Uncut &
Uncensored, was published by the Ethnic Studies Publication Unit
at UC Berkeley in 1997.
Patrisia is the first Latina syndicated columnist in the country.
As a Kellogg National Leadership Program Fellow, she explored community
healing and healing traditions because of her own bout with Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome.
She conducts writing workshops and speeches on community healing,
self healing, healing women and trauma, writing as a form of healing,
surviving transforming rape and sexual violence and historical trauma.
Roberto began his long journalistic/writing career at La Gente
newspaper at UCLA in 1972. Since 1990, he has been a senior writer
with Black Issues in Higher Education. He is the author of the recently
published The X in La Raza and Codex Tamanchuan: On Becoming
Human.
He speaks primarily on human rights issues, indigenous issues of
the Americas, and issues of violence, healing and forgiveness. He
also speaks on issues stemming from their Going Back to Where
We Came From origins/migrations project. They also speak together
on current events from a Latino perspective.
Traveling from: Texas
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