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Ernesto Colin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching & Learning
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA

Chair-Elect

Panolti. My name is Ernesto Colín. I write from occupied Tongva lands in so called Los Angeles. I am a visual artist, danzante, first generation student, son of immigrants, and Associate professor of Teaching & Learning at Loyola Marymount University. I have been a NACCS member and conference attendee for over 30 years. Starting in high school, NACCSistas inspired community activism, ceremony, an academic journey in Chicanx studies in college, and my teaching of language and ethnic studies in public high schools. I am a lifetime member of NACCS, an academic home of my tenure track career. I have degrees in Chicanx Studies, Spanish, Education, and Anthropology of Education. My scholarly interests center on Danza, Indigenous Education, Anthropology of Education, and Teacher Education.

The femtorship and community I find at NACCS has sustained me and I have served in leadership in the SoCal Foco, Indigenous Caucus, and through a four year term on the board as treasurer. I feel confident I possess enough experience, mechanical knowledge, and perspective to continue to serve the membership, and I acknowledge the tremendous wisdom and labor of colleagues who have been fountains of support in those roles. I am genuinely humbled by this nomination to serve as Chair-elect in the organization, standing on the shoulders of giants in our field. I am called to serve in the tradition of tekio and collective governance maintained by our elders, endeavoring to sustain the tremendous talent, human network, mentoring, dynamic scholarly exchange, activist fire, and platform for communities within the organization.

I peer out to the coming year. My main goal is for NACCS to continue fostering conditions for scholars to thrive. I survey deeply troubled times: fascisim and oligarchy, dismantling of safety nets, destruction of research and resources, illegal deportations, refugee children stripped of advocates, war and genocide, campus anxieties, misinformation, just to name a few of the countless assaults on our communities. On the one hand, these conditions are not new to us and we can look to our ancestors for strength. On the other, we are at a juncture which requires innovative persistence, resistance, survivance, and re-existence. As much as ever, we look to our artists to help us imagine, historians to remind us, political scientists and activists to help us strategize, healers to center us, and creators and scholars of all disciplines to study, teach, and celebrate the amazing dynamics of Chicana/e/o/x communities everywhere.

La lucha sigue y sigue. New forms of yaotilistli (art of combat) emerge.

Term: 3 years (chair-elect, chair, and past-chair).
Duties: The Chair-Elect will be directly elected by the general membership to serve for one year before succeeding to become the National Chair. In the Chairperson's absence, the Chair-Elect of NACCS shall perform the duties of the National Chair. The Chair-Elect also serves as the Program Chair for the annual NACCS conference and the Nominations Committee.

In the event of the National Chair’s resignation, inability, refusal to serve or perform the duties of the position, a vacancy shall be declared and the Chair-Elect shall succeed as the National Chair early on. If this occurrence takes place in the first half of the National Chair’s term, then a special election will be held to fill the Chair-Elect position upon its vacancy. If the vacancy takes place after six months into the term, then the Chair-Elect position will remain vacant until the next scheduled election for the position and the new National Chair will serve until the end of her/his regular term. In the event that the Chair-Elect is unable or unwilling to succeed to the position of National Chair, then the National Board shall select a representative to perform the duties of the National Chair for the unexpired portion of the term.

To be eligible to run for this office, a candidate for Chair-Elect must: (1) be a member in good-standing; (2) have been a member continuously for the previous four (4) years before assuming office; (3) have had significant, active participation in NACCS; (4) have provided a significant, active contribution to Chicana & Chicano Studies; and (5) have contributed to advance the interests and needs of the Chicana & Chicano community. This person cannot hold more than one National Board office in NACCS at the same time, nor run consecutively for this office.

The chair-elect will then take on the responsibilities of the Chair and then the Past-Chair.