An Educational and Rebellious Proposal from "La Villa Inmigrante": The Case of CCATE

Please join us for our second event for our speaker series “Solidarity and Belonging Beyond Borders,” with our esteemed speaker, Obed Arango Hisijara, citizen of Latin America of Mexican origin, photographer, social anthropologist, author, social leader, and university professor. In addition, he is the founder and executive director of the Center for Culture, Art, Work and Education (CCATE), a Latinx nonprofit organization that was founded in 2011, and which is located in Norristown in the metropolitan area of Philadelphia, PA. CCATE's mission is to "to promote change and social transformation from the talents of the Latino community, at the intersection with education, art, culture, technology, health and environmental sciences."

This installment of the speaker series, titled “An Educational and Rebellious Proposal from ‘La Villa Inmigrante’ The Case of CCATE,” will feature a lecture and interactive workshop. Lunch will be provided.

The Penn Migration Initiative was created to advance and promote interdisciplinary scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange among stakeholders interested in immigration policy and immigrant communities. This academic year, we are launching a speaker series, “Solidarity and Belonging Beyond Borders,” which will bring together border scholars, journalists, policy leaders, community advocates, and artists to discuss their initiatives and research projects that humanize the people and communities in the Mexico–U.S. borderlands.

**The speaker series are co-sponsored by: Casa Latina, the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, the Annenberg School for Communication, the Population Studies Center, the Department of Sociology, the Graduate School of Education, Penn for Immigrant Rights, and Mex @ Penn, Mujeres Empoderadas.