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This year’s Latino History Project of Worcester's main event to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month will feature a discussion of the project and the larger effort to move Latino stories from the margins to the center of American history.

Keynote speaker:

We are honored to host Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn as guest speaker. Tey Marianna Nunn is the Associate Director for Content and Interpretation for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL). In this capacity she oversees the museum’s Education, Curatorial, Collections, Digital, and Audience Engagement Teams.

Established in 2014, the Latino History Project of Worcester (LHPW) is a multi-year initiative that documents the Latino experience in Worcester, including the untold history of Latino individuals, institutions, cultures, economy, and daily life. Its mission to collect, share, and celebrate the Latino experience in Worcester drives a community-centered effort to demonstrate the central role that Latinos played in Worcester and the nation’s larger history.

The LHPW’s growing collection of recorded oral history interviews, photographs, artifacts, and written sources will benefit future researchers, Worcester community members, and students of all ages. For over a decade, the project has hosted community events to examine a wide range of topics, from the fights for bilingual education, fair housing, and police reform, to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of the Latino community. The project opened its first major exhibit at the Museum of Worcester in 2024. Digital exhibits, archives, and a print catalog documenting Worcester’s Latino history will soon follow.

This year’s main event to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month will feature a discussion of the project and the larger effort to move Latino stories from the margins to the center of American history.

We are honored to host Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn as guest speaker. Tey Marianna Nunn is the Associate Director for Content and Interpretation for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL). In this capacity she oversees the museum’s Education, Curatorial, Collections, Digital, and Audience Engagement Teams.

Her past positions include Director of the Smithsonian in American’ Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), Director and Chief Curator of the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Curator of Contemporary Hispano and Latino collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Nunn received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, where her research focused on Spanish Colonial, Contemporary Latin American, and Chicana/o and Latina/o history and art history.

Nunn is also an accomplished curator and award-winning author. Her Book, Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era, helped to reposition Latinos in Art Historical studies. She is active in issues concerning Latinos and representation in museums and has served on the Boards of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)and the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS). In 1994, Nunn was one of the selected participants in the very first IUPLR Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian.

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