Pueblo -- Colorado State University- Pueblo Women's Colloquia Series presents Latinas in Education and Society beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 5 at the El Pueblo History Museum. This event is free and open to the public.

The featured speaker will be CSU- Pueblo alumna Bernadette Garcia, who works for the CU Boulder Physics and Space Grant Program. Garcia earned a bachelor's degree in music and women's studies from CSU-Pueblo in 1999 and a master's degree in education from the University of Colorado in 2003.

The presentation will explore gender, class, race and language issues of rural Southern Colorado, 1920-1945, faced by eight Huerfano County women of mixed Latin ancestry, as well as the current status of oral history in higher education.

Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Carol Loats, CSU-Pueblo associate professor and coordinator of the women's studies program, at 549-2348.

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