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Thank you for celebrating with us!<\/div>\n
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See you in 2026 \u2014 and enjoy our photos from this year\u2019s events!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From mid-September to mid-October, departments across the College honor the cultures, histories and contributions of Americans of Hispanic, Latine\/a\/o\/x and Latin American heritage to our campus, our city and US society at large.<\/div>\n
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Through music, visual arts, lectures, and conversations with community organizers and scholars, we welcome all to learn, celebrate and connect as a community.<\/div>\n
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Dreaming of Home:
A Conversation with
Activist, Author & QC Alumna Cristina Jim\u00e9nez \u201907<\/h1>\n

\u00a0Wednesday, October 8, 2025<\/span>
12:15\u20131:30 pm (Free Hour)<\/span>
Rosenthal Library 230<\/span><\/p>\n

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Join Political Science and LALS as we celebrate Cristina Jim\u00e9nez \u201907 in a conversation about how her history of activism started right here at Queens College!<\/p>\n

Cristina will also sign books outside the event. Free books for the first 75 student attendees.<\/p>\n

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About the speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cristina Jim\u00e9nez is an award-winning community organizer and a leading voice in movements for social justice. She is the cofounder and former executive director of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth\u2013led organization in the country, where she steered national and state campaigns for immigrant justice, playing a leadership role in the campaign to win and implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). A distinguished lecturer at the City University of New York, Jim\u00e9nez was awarded a MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d Fellowship in 2017 and was named one of Time 100\u2019s most influential people in 2018. She came to the US from Ecuador in 1998 and grew up undocumented in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n

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Moderator: Prof. Jorge A. Alves<\/strong>, Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program and Associate Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Brought to you by Latin American and Latino Studies, the Department of Political Science, and Alumni Relations.<\/p>\n

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