MC student helps Smithsonian Document Immigrant Rights Activist History

Former PPHI intern, Nyrene Monforte (MC ’21) and Project Lead, Patty Arteaga (NMAH), described their work on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's (NMAH) Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. The initiative is a “three-year project tracing the emergence of undocumented youth activism over the past twenty years by recording, analyzing, and interpreting political strategies via the collection of oral histories and objects.”

0:00:42 Intro by Prof. Eddy Arana, PPHI Internship Coordinator
0:01:54 What is the Paul Peck Humanities Institute at MC?
0:09:47 Patty Arteaga presents the Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative
0:39:19 Remarks by PPHI Director Professor Sara Ducey
0:42:54 Nyrene Monforte internship experience and presentation