A wonderful event which will include a mock PB process for people and community to participate in the process, we will also have City Hall staff, the Budget office, City Council Members, and the Mayor gaining a view of the process and talking to the community about PB. We look forward to a wonderful evening of community and engagement.

Palo Alto College hosts renowned author Ana Castillo for a community talk/plática about the importance of maintaining and honoring our cultural identity through storytelling. The event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m. and end with a book signing following the talk. As one of the best-known Mexican-American writers working today, Dr. Ana Castillo’s work focuses on the complexities of Xicanx identity while transcending the boundaries of politics, class, and gender. Castillo’s prose blends elements of oral history and…

2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the 1942 U.S. Bracero Program executive order and the first group of braceros that entered through El Paso, Texas to work in the sugar beet harvest in Stockton, California. Though the program ended decades ago, millions of Mexican-Americans can trace their roots to their fathers' or grandfathers' entry into the U.S. as braceros. This September, the first ever national Bracero History Summit will be held in El Paso to honor this anniversary and to…