Rachel Torres's guest appearances

Rachel Torres

Imagining Latinidades

Heavyweights & Headbangs

CommonSense Leadership Influencer Podcast

Dan Bell

Josh Bryant

Kimberly Wilson

Sujey Vega

Natalia Molina

Ed Morales

Amanda Comunale

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Coleman

Sara King

Adrian Burgos

Kendall Johnson

Marcus Thomas

Dave Underwood

Henry Craig

OwlTail

Welcome back to our focus and celebration of public service!  As you know, I have tremendous fondness and appreciation for my time in public service and the invaluable lessons I learned about leadership, people, community, and meaningful giving back! Our theme for June-July:  "A Call to Public Service:  A Leadership Journey" Today, our guest is Rachel Torres is the Administrator and National Director for the Employment Training Administration’s (ETA) Office of Job Corps at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Job Corps is a residential program that provides comprehensive and integrated academic and career technical skills training, workforce preparation, and support services for low-income young adults ages 16 to 24. In this role, she is responsible for operating the $1.7 billion program, including its 123 centers across the country. Over the years, Ms. Torres received recognition for her leadership at both the agency and Departmental levels, including numerous Secretary’s Exceptional Achievement Awards. In 2019, she was the proud recipient of the DOL’s Distinguished Career Service Award. She has been a member of the African American Federal Executive Association since 2017 and serves as the Community Affairs Director and Program Director on its Board of Directors. From 2017 to 2019, she chaired the Board of the Directors of Washington Leadership Academy, a charter school in Washington DC that focuses on technology. Listen as Rachel shares personal advice and encouragement for those looking to excel in public service and the role AAFEA can play.  As Rachel says:  "If you want more from your career...take ownership and keep moving towards that next step...whatever it may be."--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dr-l-d-bennett1/message

Welcome back to our focus and celebration of public service!  As you know, I have tremendous fondness and appreciation for my time in public service and the invaluable lessons I learned about leadership, people, community, and meaningful giving back! Our theme for June-July:  "A Call to Public Service:  A Leadership Journey" Today, our guest is Rachel Torres is the Administrator and National Director for the Employment Training Administration’s (ETA) Office of Job Corps at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Job Corps is a residential program that provides comprehensive and integrated academic and career technical skills training, workforce preparation, and support services for low-income young adults ages 16 to 24. In this role, she is responsible for operating the $1.7 billion program, including its 123 centers across the country. Over the years, Ms. Torres received recognition for her leadership at both the agency and Departmental levels, including numerous Secretary’s Exceptional Achievement Awards. In 2019, she was the proud recipient of the DOL’s Distinguished Career Service Award. She has been a member of the African American Federal Executive Association since 2017 and serves as the Community Affairs Director and Program Director on its Board of Directors. From 2017 to 2019, she chaired the Board of the Directors of Washington Leadership Academy, a charter school in Washington DC that focuses on technology. Listen as Rachel shares personal advice and encouragement for those looking to excel in public service and the role AAFEA can play.  As Rachel says:  "If you want more from your career...take ownership and keep moving towards that next step...whatever it may be."--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/dr-l-d-bennett1/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/dr-l-d-bennett1/message</a>

S2 - July: "A Call to Public Service: A Leadership Journey" | Episode 37 - Guest: Rachel Torres - National Director - Job Corps - U.S. Dept. of Labor

In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Torres. She is a 2X JR ATWR holder raw in the 75kg weight class. We talk about her upcoming competition, current training for this meet. Her past accomplishments and what it's like being married to a powerlifter. Luckily enough we had Rachel and her husband come by the gym and train not too long ago and they are amazing people. Keep an eye out for Rachel as she continues to make noise in the sport. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Torres. She is a 2X JR ATWR holder raw in the 75kg weight class. We talk about her upcoming competition, current training for this meet. Her past accomplishments and what it's like being married to a powerlifter. Luckily enough we had Rachel and her husband come by the gym and train not too long ago and they are amazing people. Keep an eye out for Rachel as she continues to make noise in the sport.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

Episode 4 Season 2 Heavyweights and Headbangs w/ Rachel Torres

Lisa Ortiz

In this second episode of the Imagining Latinidades podcast, two of the three co-hosts (Rene is absent) talk with two of the three Mellon fellows who are involved with the Sawyer Seminar. Topics discussed, which form chapter markers in your podcast listening app, include: Pronouncing “Latinx” and “LatinX” Rachel Torres’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story” Lisa Ortiz’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story” The importance of Latina/o/x Studies for students Lisa’s current research Rachel’s current research  Latina/o/x Studies' connection between research and community What's your message for Latina/o/x students at PWIs? And don’t forget: our first main event takes place September 19-21. Information on the website at http://imagininglatinidades.com.★ Thanks to our sponsors ★  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.  The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast. Show notes: Read about Lisa Ortiz and Rachel Torres here: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/mellon-fellows/  Rachel mentioned a couple things that made a difference as an undergrad: 1) UNT’s Emerald Eagles Scholars program; 2) UNT’s McNair Scholars program Rachel also mentioned a couple of people important to her as an undergrad: Regina Branton | Department of Political Science and Valerie Martinez-Ebers | Department of Political Science  Lisa’s undergrad program is here: http://business.uprm.edu/adof/index.php. Her Masters program is here: https://www.uprm.edu/english/. Mentors in Puerto Rico included Dr. Jocelyn A. Géliga-Vargas and Dr. Catherine Mazak.  A few programs of interest and referenced by Lisa include: the Summer Predoctoral Institute (SPI) at  https://grad.illinois.edu/diversity/spi-objectives; Latina/Latino Studies at Illinois; and La Casa Cultural Latina | La Casa Cultural Latina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On the (historically fraught) relationship between Blackness and Latinidad(es), see the excellent work from the Black Latinas Know Collective: https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/about-blkc. Also see scholarship and other writings in the groundbreaking edited book, The Afro-Latin@ Reader. If we had talked about higher education a bit more, Lisa would have mentioned Dr. Roderick Ferguson’s book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012).  For a broader perspective on the “why Latina/o/x Studies question that was discussed, consider Lisa Marie Cacho’s work regarding Ethnic Studies, “But Some of Us Are Wise: Academic Illegitimacy and the Affective Value of Ethnic Studies.” The Black Scholar 40:4: 28-36. PDF available here: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/2010_Cacho_Ethnic_Studies.pdf  You can reply to this podcast here:  Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat  Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311  Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com  Credits Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez. Music by Juan Ruiz. Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love. Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast. 

In this second episode of the Imagining Latinidades podcast, two of the three co-hosts (Rene is absent) talk with two of the three Mellon fellows who are involved with the Sawyer Seminar. Topics discussed, which form chapter markers in your podcast listening app, include:<ul> <li>Pronouncing “Latinx” and “LatinX”</li> <li>Rachel Torres’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story”</li> <li>Lisa Ortiz’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story”</li> <li>The importance of Latina/o/x Studies for students</li> <li>Lisa’s current research</li> <li>Rachel’s current research </li> <li>Latina/o/x Studies' connection between research and community</li> <li>What's your message for Latina/o/x students at PWIs?</li> </ul>And don’t forget: our first main event takes place September 19-21. Information on the website at <a href="http://imagininglatinidades.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://imagininglatinidades.com</a>. ★ Thanks to our sponsors ★<ul> <li> <a href="https://mellon.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s</a> generous support through its <a href="https://mellon.org/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities/sawyer-seminars/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sawyer Seminar program</a> allowed “<a href="http://imagininglatinidades.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging</a>” to launch at the <a href="https://uiowa.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Iowa</a>. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.</li> <li> <a href="https://obermann.uiowa.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies</a>, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.</li> </ul> Show notes:<ul> <li>Read about Lisa Ortiz and Rachel Torres here: <a href="https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/mellon-fellows/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/mellon-fellows/</a> </li> <li>Rachel mentioned a couple things that made a difference as an undergrad: 1) UNT’s <a href="https://emeraldeagles.unt.edu/could-you-be-emerald-eagle-scholar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emerald Eagles Scholars</a> program; 2) UNT’s <a href="https://honors.unt.edu/mcnair-scholars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">McNair Scholars</a> program</li> <li>Rachel also mentioned a couple of people important to her as an undergrad: <a href="https://politicalscience.unt.edu/people/regina-branton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Regina Branton | Department of Political Science</a> and <a href="https://politicalscience.unt.edu/people/valerie-martinez-ebers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Valerie Martinez-Ebers | Department of Political Science</a> </li> <li>Lisa’s undergrad program is here: <a href="http://business.uprm.edu/adof/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://business.uprm.edu/adof/index.php</a>. Her Masters program is here: <a href="https://www.uprm.edu/english/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.uprm.edu/english/</a>. Mentors in Puerto Rico included Dr. Jocelyn A. Géliga-Vargas and Dr. Catherine Mazak. </li> <li>A few programs of interest and referenced by Lisa include: the Summer Predoctoral Institute (SPI) at  <a href="https://grad.illinois.edu/diversity/spi-objectives" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://grad.illinois.edu/diversity/spi-objectives</a>; <a href="https://lls.illinois.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latina/Latino Studies at Illinois</a>; and <a href="https://oiir.illinois.edu/la-casa-cultural-latina" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">La Casa Cultural Latina | La Casa Cultural Latina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a>.</li> <li>On the (historically fraught) relationship between Blackness and Latinidad(es), see the excellent work from the Black Latinas Know Collective: <a href="https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/about-blkc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/about-blkc</a>. Also see scholarship and other writings in the groundbreaking edited book, <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZjyShY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Afro-Latin@ Reader</a>.</li> <li>If we had talked about higher education a bit more, Lisa would have mentioned Dr. Roderick Ferguson’s book <a href="https://amzn.to/31Sc4rn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference</a> (2012). </li> <li>For a broader perspective on the “why Latina/o/x Studies question that was discussed, consider Lisa Marie Cacho’s work regarding Ethnic Studies, “But Some of Us Are Wise: Academic Illegitimacy and the Affective Value of Ethnic Studies.” The Black Scholar 40:4: 28-36. PDF available here: <a href="https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/2010_Cacho_Ethnic_Studies.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/2010_Cacho_Ethnic_Studies.pdf</a> </li> </ul> You can reply to this podcast here:<ul> <li> Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat</li> <li> Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311</li> <li> Email: <a href="mailto:podcast@imagininglatinidades.com">podcast@imagininglatinidades.com</a> </li> </ul> Credits<ul> <li>Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, <a href="https://fidenciofperez.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fidencio Fifield-Perez</a>.</li> <li>Music by <a href="https://instagram.com/juantafman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Juan Ruiz</a>.</li> <li>Our hosting is provided by <a href="https://transistor.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transistor.fm</a>, which we really love.</li> <li>Our podcasting app of choice is <a href="https://overcast.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Overcast.fm</a>, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.</li> </ul>

Why Latina/o/x Studies? (feat. Lisa Ortiz & Rachel Torres)