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Yolanda Chávez Leyva
(? - living) U.S.A.

Yolanda Leyva

Historian

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Yolanda Chávez Leyva is a Chicana historian and writer who was born in Ciudad Juárez and raised in El Paso, Texas. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. She is an associate professor with the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso where she specializes in border, Chicana/o, women's and public histories.

Since returning to El Paso in 2001, she has collaborated with schools and community organizations in creating community oral history projects and museos comunitarios (community museums), recovering the stories of people living on the border. She has also consulted with history museums to ensure that diversity is present in exhibits.

Currently, she is revising a manuscript titled, "Crossing the Line: Mexican Children on the Texas- Mexico Border, 1880-1940", which investigates the ways in which the presence of children shaped the border during a critical period in its history. In addition, she is also working on a manuscript titled "Calling the Ancestors: Historical Memory, Indigenous Identity, and Chicana/o History", which explores the connections between teaching and healing. Yolanda is also a published poet who regularly conducts community writing workshops.

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