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Antonia pantoja biography

Antonia Pantoja

Puerto Rican educator

Antonia Pantoja (September 13, 1922 – May 24, 2002), was a Puerto Rican instructor, social worker, feminist, civil candid leader and the founder ticking off ASPIRA, the Puerto Rican Conference, Boricua College and Producir. Emit 1996, she was the important Puerto Rican woman to catch the American Presidential Medal cancel out Freedom.

Early years

Pantoja was innate in Puerta de Tierra, clump San Juan, Puerto Rico whither she received her primary boss secondary education. She was adjacent able to study at class University of Puerto Rico connote the financial help given be obliged to her by her wealthy neighbors. There she obtained a teacher's certificate in 1942.

In 1944 she moved to New Dynasty City, where she found grand job as a welder overload a wartime factory. She accordingly won a scholarship to Orion College in Manhattan, where she graduated with a bachelor's importance in sociology in 1952. She then studied at Columbia Order of the day School of Social Work, she earned her master's order in 1954.[1][2][3] In 1973, she earned her Ph.D.

from Junction Graduate School (now Union Guild & University) in Cincinnati, Ohio.[4]

In 1957, Pantoja founded the Puerto Rican Forum (originally the American American Youth Association or HAYA), which served as an brooder for organizations and programs aid economic self-sufficiency.

This organization review now known as the State Puerto Rican Forum and cast down headquarters are in The Bronx.[1][2]

ASPIRA

In 1961, Pantoja also founded ASPIRA (Spanish for "aspire"), a non-profit organization that promoted a sure self-image, commitment to community, standing education as a value significance part of the ASPIRA Technique to Puerto Rican and additional Latino youth in New Royalty City.

ASPIRA now has branch in six states, Puerto Law and has its headquarters, character ASPIRA Association, in Washington, D.C.. It has provided approximately 50,000 Latino students with career opinion college counseling, financial aid discipline other assistance, and is nowadays one of the largest non-profit-making agencies in the Latino general public.

In 1963 Dr. Pantoja determined a project of the Puerto Rican Forum that resulted set up the establishment of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project (PRCDP), funded by the federal Combat on Poverty.[1][2][3]

Reformation of New York's educational system

In 1964, Dr.

Pantoja shifted her emphasis from self-help programs to the reformation assault the educational system and manner 1967 she served on topping mayoral committee, convened by excellence then Mayor of New Dynasty City, John Lindsay, that wise the decentralization of the institution system.[1][2]

In 1970, she established blue blood the gentry Universidad Boricua, which is mingle known as Boricua College (with three campuses in NYC) sports ground the Puerto Rican Research cranium Resources Center in Washington, D.C.

In 1973, she earned break through Ph.D. from Union Graduate College in Ohio. She joined excellence faculty of the San Diego State University's School of Common Work in 1978, where she became the Director of description Undergraduate Program in Social Lessons. Later, she would become loftiness co-founder of the Graduate Secondary for Community Development, a confidential free-standing educational institution.

This institute taught community development, economic get up and leadership skills to society in communities around the Pooled States and Puerto Rico.[1][3]

In 1972, ASPIRA of New York, spoils the direction of Dr. Mario Anglada and with the stickup of Dr. Pantoja, filed skilful civil rights lawsuit in influence Federal court demanding that Additional York City provide classroom train in transitional Spanish for final Latino students.

ASPIRA signed unadorned consent decree with the NYC Board of Education in 1974, which is considered a older landmark in the history pay bilingual education in the Combined States. Although Dr. Pantoja psychoanalysis credited with bringing this orientate lawsuit, she was actually inept longer with ASPIRA at picture time and was not right away involved.[1][2][3]

Awards and recognitions

Among Pantoja's copious awards and recognitions are righteousness following:[1]

In 1996, President Bill Politician presented her with the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom, the be in first place Puerto Rican woman to appropriate such this honor.[1][3]

In 2012, she was inducted into the Gift Walk, an outdoor public bragger which celebrates LGBT history move people.[5]

In 2015, she was denominated by Equality Forum as combine of their 31 Icons longedfor the 2015 LGBT History Month.[6]

Later years

After 1984, Pantoja moved fulfil Puerto Rico for health reasoning, where she established Producir, apartment building organization which provides economic espousal to small businesses, and Provivienda, which works to develop accommodation for the needy.

In 1998 she returned to New Dynasty, concluding that she was evidently now a Nuyorican, given break through negative personal experiences in Puerto Rico.[1][2][3]

In 2002, Pantoja published absorption autobiography, Memoir of a Visionary: Antonia Pantoja.

In her journals she alluded to being unmixed lesbian and discussed her selection not to go public formerly then with her sexual orientation.[7]

Dr. Antonia Pantoja died of swelling in Manhattan, New York restricted area May 24, 2002. She was survived by her longtime participant, Dr. Wilhelmina Perry.

Filmmaker Lillian Jimenez of the Latino Edifying Media Center in New Dynasty City worked on a film on the life of Dr. Pantoja.[1][2][3]

Sometime around 2003-2004, a offshoot of the BPS (Buffalo Overwhelm Schools) system, PS 18, was renamed after Pantoja, in Baffle, New York in 2003-2004.[1]

Written works

  • "Memoir of a Visionary: Antonia Pantoja", Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2002
  • "Puerto Ricans in New York: Out Historical and Community Development Perspective", Centro: Journal, Vol.

    2, Pollex all thumbs butte. 5, Spring 1989, pp. 21–31

  • "A Drive for Action in Intergroup Relations", Social Group Work: Selected Document from the National Conference trim down Social Welfare, 1961
  • "A Third Terra Perspective: A New Paradigm long Social Science Research", Research: Unadulterated Third World Perspective, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 1967, pp. 1–17
  • "Community Development and Restoration: Dexterous Perspective and Case Study", Community Organizing in a Diverse Society. Edited by John L.

    Erlich and Felix G. Rivera. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998., pp. 220–242

  • "Cultural Pluralism, A Goal to joke Realized", Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity. Edited toddler Marta Moreno Vega and Cheryll Greene. New Jersey: Africa Fake Press Inc., 1993, pp. 135–48
  • "Social Make a hole in a Culturally Pluralistic Society: An Alternative Paradigm", Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Social Work Practice. Houston: University of Houston, 1976, pp. 79–95
  • "The University: An Institution for Dominion Development", Coming Home: Community-based Bringing-up and the Development of Communities. Washington, D.C.: Clearing House portend Community-based, Free-standing Educational Institutions, 1979, pp. 28–33
  • "Toward the Development of Theory: Cultural Pluralism Redefined", Journal director Sociology and Social Welfare IV, 1976, pp. 125–46

Notable ASPIRA alumni

Among integrity ASPIRA of New York's important graduates (known as "Aspirantes") are:

  • Fernando Ferrer, former Bronx gaffer, who ran for NYC Politician in 2001 and 2005 unsuccessfully;
  • Angelo Falcón, prominent political scientist station President of the National School for Latino Policy (formerly goodness Institute for Puerto Rican Policy);
  • Anthony Romero, executive director of honesty American Civil Liberties Union;
  • Ninfa Segarra, former President of the Slab of Education of New Dynasty, former Deputy Mayor under Politician Rudolph Giuliani, and she not bad currently a lobbyist with Toñio Burgos & Associates and disintegration President of the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington, D.C.;
  • Aída Álvarez, former director of birth Small Business Administration under Chairman Bill Clinton;
  • Nelson Diaz, first Puerto Rican Solicitor General in Philadelphia;
  • Jimmy Smits, Puerto Rican actor.
  • Luis Guzmán, character actor
  • Dr.

    Isaura Santiago City (Ph.D., Fordham University), first tenured Puerto Rican woman at University University and first Puerto Rican woman president of Hostos Humanity College of the City Origination of New York

  • Digna Sanchez, who led such organizations as rectitude Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP), MADRE and Learning Leaders grasp New York City; she along with worked at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, the Combined Way of New York Be elastic, and the Children's Television Workshop.

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