The 2023 International Education Week (IEW) program is highlighting PVCC’s “Glo-cal” Colleagues. International Education Week is a joint initiative between the US Department of State and the US Department of Education with the purpose of promoting programs that prepare Americans for the global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences.
Access the full program of IEW events occurring across all of the Maricopa Community Colleges.
Jewell Medina is a scholar in the PhD program of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University Of New Mexico. Her research interests include Chicana Feminist Cultural Production Of South Texas and the Cultural Production of Chicanas within social movements. Her MA dissertation is entitled Women Who Wake With The Roosters And Other Xicana Sacred Spaces: Our Art Is Our Weapon. Malinches Protest Art Of HB 2281. This work has been presented at NACCS and Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social Santa Barbara, Ca. Jewell is also a medicine woman curandera and artist with a permanent collection of her works in the Chicano Archives at Arizona State University. Jewell teaches Introduction to Chicana Feminism and is the community archivist for the Chicana and Chicano studies graduate organization. Our art is our weapon is about lorrona consciousness and re-membering our stories for Chicana feminist liberation.
Victoria Terrazas is an alumnus of Paradise Valley Community College, after pursuing her AA degree she continues to work with students, faculty and staff. Victoria currently works in facilities as a program specialist, her passion for nature and animals have been a hobby since childhood. She started rescuing animals at the age of five, and has continued to re-home animals throughout her adulthood. Her love for animals came from her grandfather who worked on a farm in Maricopa, Arizona. Victoria’s grandmother used plants for healing remedies and grew most of the herbs herself. Victoria remembers helping her grandmother tend to the garden early in the morning, picking mint, aloe vera, and chamomile to make tea. Victoria continues her grandparent’s legacy by growing herbs, caring for animals and her love for them in her healing remedies.