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Trinidad Gonzales is a history and Mexican American Studies instructor at South Texas College. He is a co-founder and of Refusing to Forget, a nationally recognized public history project devoted to remembering state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the 1910s in Texas. He also engaged in public advocacy for the creation of a Mexican American Studies high school course and helped lead the effort to reject a racist textbook concerning Mexican Americans. Besides his public history and advocacy for Mexican American Studies he served on the American Historical Association Council as a Teaching Division Councilor, 2014-2017 and currently is on the board of the National Humanities Alliance.

Trinidad Gonzales

co-Founder

Trinidad Gonzales

co-Founder

Trinidad Gonzales is a history and Mexican American Studies instructor at South Texas College. He is a co-founder and of Refusing to Forget, a nationally recognized public history project devoted to remembering state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the 1910s in Texas. He also engaged in public advocacy for the creation of a Mexican American Studies high school course and helped lead the effort to reject a racist textbook concerning Mexican Americans. Besides his public history and advocacy for Mexican American Studies he served on the American Historical Association Council as a Teaching Division Councilor, 2014-2017 and currently is on the board of the National Humanities Alliance.

Juan P. Carmona is a Social Studies teacher at Donna High School and a dual enrollment History instructor through South Texas College. He graduated with honors from the American Military University with a master’s degree in American History and was awarded the 2018 James F. Veninga Outstanding Teaching Humanities Award by Humanities Texas and was Donna I.S.D.’s Secondary Teacher of the Year for 2017-18. He is a member of the NACCS Tejas Foco Committee for Mexican American Studies K-12. Mr. Carmona is also a member of the award-winning Refusing to Forget Public History Project. His primary field of research is the history of the South Texas borderlands. He is also the Co-founder of Nosotrxs Por El Valle a community public history project with a traveling exhibit highlighting important events in the struggle for Civil Rights in the Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of the book The Alton Bus Crash co-author of The Deadly 1940 Alamo Train Crash and co-author of The Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse.

Juan Carmona

Member

Juan Carmona

Member

Juan P. Carmona is a Social Studies teacher at Donna High School and a dual enrollment History instructor through South Texas College. He graduated with honors from the American Military University with a master’s degree in American History and was awarded the 2018 James F. Veninga Outstanding Teaching Humanities Award by Humanities Texas and was Donna I.S.D.’s Secondary Teacher of the Year for 2017-18. He is a member of the NACCS Tejas Foco Committee for Mexican American Studies K-12. Mr. Carmona is also a member of the award-winning Refusing to Forget Public History Project. His primary field of research is the history of the South Texas borderlands. He is also the Co-founder of Nosotrxs Por El Valle a community public history project with a traveling exhibit highlighting important events in the struggle for Civil Rights in the Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of the book The Alton Bus Crash co-author of The Deadly 1940 Alamo Train Crash and co-author of The Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse.