"And do not give [your HSI identity] up. Even if that [federal designation] goes away, do not give it up. You have the power to claim that identity. And that's what's important. Do not give it up. Because that's the [federal government’s] strategy. ..." - Yesenia Silva Estrada
!["And do not give [your HSI identity] up. Even if that [federal designation] goes away, do not give it up. You have the power to claim that identity. And that's what's important. Do not give it up. Because that's the [federal government’s] strategy. And if that happens, then that means the strategy works. Part of our resistance is to keep claiming that [HSI] identity, loud and proud" - Yesenia Silva Estrada, Vice President of Planning and Chief of Staff, Colorado Mountain College](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreihj36da4dznhfbo6zgj4duvx5y5bhd5avocrpyzqbpxdbnxoftbaq)
!["A lot of the way Western or gringo grief considers, it's an individual process that you go through on your own and you process. And I think Mexican grief is a collective experience. It's something you do together. And I think about that moment with Juan Gabriel’s [Amor Eterno] and all the people singing. There's something about putting it together that doesn't stop you from feeling it, but it makes it feel different when you're with others feeling those feelings" - Dr. Christian A. Bracho, Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator, California State University Long Beach](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreidpuemfd2m2b7ybtgditsfftz3espxpzfmau2s4ryy3dzjtk2c25u)
!["And so my goal in this chapter was to really offer alternatives [to the normative grief model]. What are some other words? But also for those of us who grew up in bilingual households or in bicultural households or who just are part of the Latinx community or speak Spanish, there's other words, there's other concepts that don't translate that maybe provide other ways of thinking about it." - Dr. Christian A. Bracho, Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator, California State University Long Beach](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreicz32cnr2b2zf35mtlao667klcevh7m5rpid3g325tfzhjqkf5sd4)
!["And I think that in Spanish, [the word dolor] has a very different kind of feeling. It's something that is pain, it literally says it's pain, because grief is painful, but it literally means pain. And I think about grief as something that is still painful. And it's not just psychological, it's physical pain. You feel it in your body. It's something that you feel really deeply. But it's also something that I think can be really beautiful and something that can be very joyful to experience and to ritualize. It can be something that actually creates moments of beauty in our lives" - Dr. Christian A. Bracho, Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator, California State University Long Beach](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreih6ndgmn4dmg2v773wrvdfynnce4h4v2sfxfytizmwv7i7rsacqlu)
!["I was often the only [Latina] in many settings. Unfortunately, as a nursing student, I didn't have any faculty who looked like me. There were two other Latinas in my class with me as a new nurse, and then as a nurse leader. I was often the only Latina in these positions" - Dr. Tina Loarte-Rodriguez, Executive Director, Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Author, Founder, & CEO, Latinas in Nursing www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreihgd6ygdkuhwky2pdq2pkp4rzx3pf5zhr4rcbijlyy7ath4oclz4a)
!["[The representation of Latinxs in nursing] is really, really small. It's around, depending on the source, between 7 and 8% of the 5 million nurses that identify as Latina/Latinx. And that's just not sufficient, right? Because with a population that's 30%, there's that lack of cultural congruence" - Dr. Tina Loarte-Rodriguez, Executive Director, Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Author, Founder, & CEO, Latinas in Nursing](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreif4gwml2hcgdz6oawlu4qwkf52f6qq6b4dyuxcfxfv43xg5bs27ui)
!["So the Caring Campus [initiative] actually came to IVC in 2019 before the pandemic, and it was the classified [staff’s] way to really latch onto the Guided Pathways work that was happening. At the time, classified [staff] were really eager to find a way to get involved in that initiative, and that was our way to really do the work" - Julie Fagundes Scholl, Program Coordinator- Adult English as a Second Language (AESL), Irvine Valley College](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreiguoae5d5askis2zhcpwmaymjxq2pwyw264ngytit7yi2t2x4s37e)
!["It's fascinating. I was doing a, I call it a riff, with some colleagues and just talking and took the riff into an opinion article about how do we serve students, and it was random where I said that we need Black Serving Institutions, right? And that was a start, and we just started talking about what does that look like? And from there it became an article, that was in the Diverse Issues of Higher Education article [now EduLedger]" - Dr. Keith Curry](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdsircztahmety375m5r6dvy/bafkreiekx26qmoym5jcn6pisr7iriqqjc7ex5bulaqrpjrskxw7nqpei4i)
