Hola, bienvenidos to El Podcast del Profe Palacios, a podcast about Ethnic Studies, education, and issues affecting our Latino/e students and communities. I am your host Dr. Agustín Palacios, professor of Chicano/Latino Studies for more than 15 years at the community college. In this podcast we will talk about how Ethnic Studies is more than an academic subject; it is a practice grounded in community love and social justice. The analysis and conversations I will provide will be informed by many years of research, and also by my experiences growing up in the US-Mexico border and in the Salinas Valley. I will bring different guests to share their stories and academic journey. We will hear from professors, students, and community organizers. And sometimes, I will provide the occasional political piece, pues porque I get angry and I need say something. Asi que ponganse las pilas, y siganme los buenos!
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Episode 27: The Politics of Community Care–A Plática with Genoveva Calloway
In this episode, I sit down with former San Pablo Mayor Genoveva Calloway—the first Latina elected to the San Pablo City Council, where she served for 16 years.
We talked about her journey, starting with her move from El Paso, Texas, in 1968 to attend Contra Costa College. Genoveva shares stories from her time as a student activist, the 1970 takeover of the college president’s office to demand the creation of the Chicano Studies Department, her path to earning an MSW from UC Berkeley, and her early work with the United Council of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (El Concílio).
The second half of our plática centeres around Las Fiestas Patrias festivities, and about the first official Cinco de Mayo parade in 2005.
We also discuss the importance of organizing, and why building community power and taking care of one another always comes back to politics in the truest sense.
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30 Aug 2026
Episode 26: Palestinian Pride and Student Leadership–Plática with Sophie Khouri
In this episode I share an interview with Sophie Khouri. Sophie is a remarkable 18 year-old Palestinian American leader, community organizer, and recent graduate of Middle College High School and Contra Costa College who is now on her way to San Francisco State University to study international relations. And I have to say that if you have ever met Sophie, you have been impressed by her.
Sophie is the founder of the Middle Eastern North African Student Union (MENA) at CCC and the former Contra Costa Community College District student trustee representing students from all three colleges in our district. In this interview I asked Sophie to share about her life, her upbringing as a Palestinian in the Bay Area, her activism, and also to reflect on her time at CCC.
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25 Jun 2026
Episode 25: Teaching for Liberation–A Plática with Mx Joy Díaz-Noriega
"Hola mi gente, bienvenidos to another episode of El Podcast de el Profe Palacios, I am your host, El Profe Palacios. Today, I am honored to share this plática I had recently with Mx. Joy Diaz-Noriega, she is an elementary dual language immersion teacher. Mx Joy, as her students call her, is also a doctoral student at the University of San Francisco. I invited Mx Joy to be a guest in the show because she is the type of educators who brings her full authentic self into the classroom. She is consistent in her words and action; she models in her work the same values she teaches. Which is not always easy. And so I wanted to know her story. In this interview we talk about her immigrant journey from Jalisco to San Pablo, her education as an undocumented student with DACA, the work and activism of her elementary school students through Rainbow Gems, a student-led club where students find their voice and their identity, and we talked about teaching. This was a great conversation, and I know you will enjoy listening to it.
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