In this lecture Rachelle Escamilla will talk about how family story fostered her love for language and poetics; how being a poet steered her to scholarship around her grandfather's activism in the 1960s Farmworker movement and how that work lead Rachelle to her own activism which has wrapped right back around to poetry and its connection to pre-colonial religious ceremony.

Rachelle is an award winning Chicana poet from the Central Coast of California. She has three collections of poetry and currently serves as Monterey County's Poet Laureate.

The talk is sponsored by the Friends of Hopkins.  It is free and open to the public.  Registration is only required if attending online instead of in person.