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Mexican-American rural communities. Varela co-founded
Ganados del Valle in 1981, a nonprofit, economic development corporation that dedicates to predominantly help Hispanic and Native-American communities in northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, and northeastern Arizona to preserve their pastoral cultures, lands, and water rights. She helped created a wool-growers cooperative that included a weaving and spinning enterprise, training in small business development, and cultural reaffirmation. She spent years trying to create and enable nonprofit organizations and viable enterprises to build upon and add to existing local resources, and was awarded was an
22:(born January 1940) is a Mexican-American civil rights photographer, community organizer, a writer, and a teacher. She has been actively involved in Civil Rights movements, advocating rights for indigenous communities and protects cultural heritage within African-American, Native-American, and Mexican-American in rural communities. She created and supported several non-profits organizations to help many minority groups, especially Native-American and Mexican-American. She won a
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Varela recognized the urgent issue of how the images provided for voter education materials excluded
African American community and lacked diversity in racial representation. Thus, her works focused on documenting the significant steps made by African American leaders and captured the progression and
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From a young age, Maria Varela has been actively involved in various civil rights movements and organizations, from the Young
Christian Student (YCS) program to Latinx Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which sets a foundation for her later work in the Civil Rights movement and in
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Maria Varela's literacy work is one of the most under-recognized and almost unstudied literacies in the U.S. However, her multimodal works, collaboratively produced by Varela and the
African American community, make the important argument about community activism, which is crucial and novel but
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Maria Varela was born in
Pennsylvania and lived in many different places in her younger days, but spent most of her time in the upper Midwest. Raised Catholic by her Mexican father and Irish mother, she grew up in a rigorous Catholic environment. She went to the St. Louis Academy for Girls in
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In 1962, Maria Varela was invited to start agricultural cooperatives and community health clinics in New Mexico. Since then, she has been working with indigenous leaders to help them develop economic opportunities and protect cultural heritage within
African-American, Native-American, and
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seldom discussed. Her work plays a critical role in those communities developing a new ethos of place: an imagined and embodied relationship between local and national communities that offers a new identity and sense of participatory agency.
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t. She believed in what is called “the great leader” theory: in order to have a powerful social movement, the movement needs a powerful leader. She not only supported the people she believed to be great leaders in supporting the
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in 1990 for her endeavor to help with the Native-American communities in northern New Mexico, southern
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