Sentimientos y Terrenos

Three UCI students worked with Professor Rosas on this digital quilt project: Through Tumultuous Times: Rebuilding and Reimagining 'America' Community Memorial Quilt, providing a creative response the Covid-19 pandemic.

In September 2020, Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Associate Professor of Chicano-Latino Studies and History at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) mentored UCI undergraduate students, Melanie Mendoza and Jahaira Pacheco, and UCI alumna Alice G. Terriquez as they developed and contributed their creative response to our COVID-19 pandemic for the Imagining America annual zoom national gathering project, Through Tumultuous Times: Rebuilding and Reimagining 'America' Community Memorial Quilt. Each of their contributions is featured as part of this digital memorial quilt and reflects the resonance of their collaboration with Rosas throughout her zoom summer undergraduate research workshop series, Sentimientos y Terrenos (Feelings and Terrains). They were among 14 UCI undergraduate students and alumni who participated in this two-month zoom summer workshop series to remain connected to each other through their consideration and discussion of civically engaged research.
If you would like to learn more about Imagining America and their zoom national gathering go here.