Indómitas: Live Podcast
FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2021
6pm (PST) Via Facebook Live
Join us for the live monthly podcast, Indómitas, hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists. This month, Chelis speaks with Olga Talamante, Executive Director Emeritus of the Chicana Latina Foundation.
Indómitas will be available for viewing on Facebook Live. To watch live, simply tune into Brava Facebook Live or Indómitas Facebook Live on Friday, April 16 at 6pm (PST).
Please note that the live podcast will be conducted in Spanish.
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ABOUT OLGA TALAMANTE
Olga Talamante is Executive Director Emeritus of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003 serving in that position until March of 2018. CLF’s mission is the Empowerment of Chicanas/Latinas through their Personal, Educational, and Professional Advancement. In her position she founded the organization’s pioneering Leadership Institute that has graduated over 500 Latina social justice leaders. She has returned to serve on CLF’s board and is also currently co-chairing the Caravan to Uncage, Reunify, Heal the Migrant Children.
Olga’s family migrated from Mexico to Gilroy, California in the early 1960’s where they worked in the farm fields for several years. Those formative years formed the basis for her activism as an organizer and supporter of the nascent United Farm Workers labor union.
She is widely respected for her community activism and leadership. During the mid-seventies, she became well known for her experience as a political prisoner in Argentina. As a result of a successful grass-roots campaign, she was released after spending 16 months in an Argentine prison. Since her return to the United States, she has remained active in the Chicano, Latin American solidarity, LGBTQ and progressive political movements.
Among her various awards, she was recognized as one of the most influential Hispanics in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the San Francisco Business Times.
Olga received the Latino Heritage Community Award from the City of San Francisco, and in 2011 she received the prestigious OHTLI award from the Mexican Government.
Four years ago, she was the Community Grand Marshall for the San Francisco LGBTQ Pride Parade. Currently she serves on the Boards of Chicana Latina Foundation, El Concilio of San Mateo County; the Greenlining Institute and until 2020, she served on the boards of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Horizons Foundation. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and most recently she received the Cesar Chavez Legacy Award.
Upon her retirement from Chicana Latina Foundation in 2018, Olga Talamante has continued her involvement with board volunteer positions, support for community-based organizations, and especially initiatives addressing the crisis at the border. She opened a consulting practice, Nopalera Consulting, to work with select organizations on organizational/leadership development and strategic solutions for organizations dedicated to equity, peace and social justice.
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ESPAÑOL
Olga Talamante es Directora Ejecutiva Emérita de la Fundación Chicana Latina. Se convirtió en la primera Directora Ejecutiva de CLF en enero de 2003 y se mantuvo en ese puesto hasta marzo de 2018 con la misión de empoderar de Chicanas / Latinas a través de su progreso personal, educativo y profesional. Bajo su cargo fundó la organización pionera Instituto de Liderazgo que ha graduado a más de 500 líderes latinas en justicia social.
Actualmente también es co presidenta de la Caravana para Liberar, Reunificar y Sanar a niñas y niños inmigrantes.
La familia de Olga emigró de México a Gilroy, California a principios de la década de los años 60, donde trabajaron en los campos agrícolas durante varios años. Esos años formativos crearon la base para su activismo como organizadora y partidaria del naciente sindicato United Farm Workers.
Olga es respetada por su activismo y liderazgo comunitario. A mediados de los setenta, se hizo conocida por su experiencia como presa política en Argentina. Fue liberada después de pasar 16 meses en una prisión argentina como resultado de una exitosa campaña de base. Desde su regreso a los Estados Unidos, se ha mantenido activa en la cultura chicana y latina, LGBTQ y los movimientos políticos progresistas.
Ha sido reconocida como una de las latinas más influyentes en el Área de la Bahía por la Cámara de Comercio Hispana de San Francisco y San Francisco Business Times. Recibió el Premio a la Comunidad de Herencia Latina de la Ciudad de San Francisco y en 2011 recibió el prestigioso premio OHTLI del Gobierno de México.
Hace cuatro años, fue Gran Mariscal en el Desfile del orgullo LGBTQ de San Francisco. Actualmente es miembra de la Junta Directiva de la Fundación Chicana Latina, El Concilio del condado de San Mateo; Greenlining Institute y hasta 2020, se desempeñó en las juntas directivas del Centro Nacional de los Derechos de las Lesbianas y la Fundación Horizontes. En 2016 recibió un Doctorado Honoris Causa de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de San Francisco y recientemente recibió el premio Cesar Chavez Legacy Award.
Luego de retirarse de la Fundación Chicana Latina en el 2018, Olga ha continuado su participación en puestos de voluntariado, apoyando organizaciones de la comunidad, y especialmente iniciativas que abordan la crisis en la frontera. También abrió un práctica de consultoría, Nopalera Consulting, para trabajar con organizaciones selectas en desarrollo organizacional / de liderazgo y soluciones estratégicas.
ABOUT INDÓMITAS
Indómitas is a live podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring interviews with fierce women artists and activists
Each month in Brava’s Cabaret,* Indómitas will interview female singers, writers, poets, activists, artists, journalists, filmmakers, and others – some well-known and some deserving to be – for live broadcast. These 60-minute conversations will cover the women’s stories of achievement, pitfalls, and hopes for their futures.
Be ready for open and honest conversations, where intimacy fosters the sharing of joy, fear, acceptance, and ultimately, the strength of women. It’s our time to be the ones who narrate our stories of who we are, what we do, what matters to us and how we organized and stand up for our rights.
*This event is currently online only, and will return to an in-person event once it is safe to do so.