A display of various items reflecting Lorena Sosa's writings, poetry, and research related to native desert plants, herbs, and medicines. Items include information about a plant-focused loteria game, native plants, woven baskets, and other resources.
Lorena Sosa (fellow) recites her poetry accompanied by Rosalinda Guadalajara (member of the Rarámuli/Rarámuri in Ciudad Juárez, México) and Rubi Orozco (Director of Organizational Storytelling & Development at La Semilla).
Lucia Lagunes Huerta discusses her organization CIMAC (Center for Communication and Information about Women) and its challenges in Mexico. As a defender of freedom of expression, Huerta comments in depth about how this right is at risk and not enough…
Journalist and senior coordinator of the Americas Program in the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Carlos Lauria describes CPJ’s efforts in Mexico to protect journalists who are being threatened and silenced. Lauria asserts that both the…
Araly Casteñón, journalist and co-founder of the Juarez Journalist Network, talks about her organization and how it differs from the Journalists of Juarez Association, about her goals to provide professional development to journalist in the region…
Enrique Lerma, reporter and cameraman for Fox News 48 (Brownsville, TX), talks about his childhood and his experiences in Matamoros, which he calls "the cradle of drug trafficking." Lerma describes the challenges and restrictions that journalists in…
Catharine Seemüeller Burkley (1834-1917) and Louis F. Burkley Sr. (1872-1943). Son showing his mother around Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Photograph taken in the Fletcher Lake area. Photograph was taken by LF Burkley Jr. (1896-1996).
Carlos Orlando Lima Chavez, editor for La Cronica, talks about how the risks of reporting news on public safety led to self-censure by Mexican journalists and to the development of protocols by the media to minimize these dangers, especially since…
Laszlo (left), Berta (right), and Anna Sczalocy (middle) onboard the Nord Deutscher Lloyd, which traveled from Hungary to the United States. After entering the States by way of Ellis Island, the family settled in Philadelphia.