Discuss “Hispanic Heritage Week, cookies and Dreamworks”

Latin-American activist and historian Maura Barrios will present a lecture titled ?Cuban and American: Living the U.S.?Cuba Conflict? on Wednesday. The lecture, which is part of both Hispanic Heritage Month at CMU and the University Lecture Series.

Barrios is the project director of Our West Side Story: Voces de West Tampa, a catalog of stories of the people who have lived in West Tampa expressed through art, dance, and music. Passionate about preserving West Tampa culture, Barrios helped create the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at University of South Florida, where she is the Assistant Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The program promotes academic, research, and service activities related to Latin American,...