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populations. Chávez, chair of politics and government and associate professor of political science, identifies as Latina. She’s a native Spanish speaker who didn’t learn English before beginning school. She was raised in an immigrant household in the Southwest and experienced many of the obstacles fellow Latinos face every day in the U.S. Like many who come from a similar background, Chávez was the first in her family to graduate from college, despite the barriers she faced. She came from a home and a

she could she came to California, and her world changed.  Once touching down at the seashore, she was awakened to a world that was something she couldn’t have dreamt up, and she was inspired. The lifestyle was a whole new thing, she saw these people living without being under the thumb of society and the church. When the sixties arrived and she was coming into her own. They held fundraisers, for politics or helping change things, but she still didn’t feel she was doing enough. She realized that