5pm doors / 5:30pm start
The Century Room in Hotel Congress
Roberto Rodriguez, Ph.D. – known as Dr. Cintli – is an emeritus associate professor in the Mexican American Studies Department, at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime award-winning journalist/columnist who returned to school in 2003 in pursuit of a Master's degree (2005) and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications (2008) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research focus at the University of Arizona is on Maiz culture on this continent, which includes its relationship to the Ethnic Studies controversies nationwide. He teaches classes on the history of Maiz, Mexican/Chicano/Chicana culture and politics and the history of red-brown journalism. His book, Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother: Nin Tonantzin Non Centeotlwas published by the University of Arizona Press 2014. He was the 2013 Baker-Clark Human Rights award recipient from American Educational Research Association, for his work in defending Ethnic Studies. He is currently working on several writing projects, including one on color and color consciousness among Brown peoples in this country and on this continent, and a co-authored book on origins and migrations of Mexican peoples. In 2016, he received an award from the National Association for Ethnic Studies. A recent collection of his work was recently published (2021) by Aztlan Libre Press - Writing 50 years (mas o menos) Amongst the Gringos. He currently writes a bi-monthly column for The Progressive Populist. He can be reached at: xcolumn@gmail.com.