Richard T Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship

A Metro State alumnus, Richard T. Castro was an educational and civil rights activist, Colorado State Representative and served as executive director of Denver's Agency for Human Rights and Community Relations.

Originally conceived as the Latino Literary Symposium, the Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship was launched in 1997 with the intention of exposing students, faculty and staff to the work of Chicano and Latino artists and leaders.

Panel Discussion
St. Cajetans on the Auraria campus
Dec. 16 at 3:30-4:30, dedication to follow.

Performance with Su Teatro
Dec. 16 at 7:00, King Center

Our guest artists/panelists are:
Tish Hinojosa, Rosana DeSoto, Jesse Borrego. Below you will find some biographical information.

Tish Hinojosa -
Musician Tish has just released her first studio CD in five years titled "A Heart Wide Open".

Hinojosa's journey in music began in San Antonio as the daughter of immigrant parents, listening to Mexican music on her mother's kitchen radio. After several years in music she landed a contract with independent label Rounder Records, where she recorded an award winning contemporary folk album and an all Spanish record of border roots music. As she was working on her next project, her music came to the attention of Warner Brothers. That resulted in the album Destiny's Gate, an eclectic mix of love ballads, uptempo songs and songs of social justice in both English and Spanish. Hinojosa's second Warner Brothers release, Dreaming from the Labyrinth, takes a different approach. It's a deeply introspective set of songs exploring themes of love, loss, and the search for life's meaning in lyrics that move between the two languages.

Tish Hinojosa's recordings include Dreaming from the Labyrinth (Warner Brothers) Destiny's Gate (Warner Brothers); Cada Nino/Every Child, a bilingual children's album on Rounder; Frontejas, an all Spanish album of traditional and original border music, also on Rounder; Culture Swing (Rounder); Aquella Noche, a live concert album, on Watermelon; Memorabilia Navidena, original Christmas music in English and Spanish, also on Watermelon; Homeland, on A&M; and her first album, Taos to Tennessee, on Watermelon, From Texas for a Christmas Night and Best of Tish Hinojosa-Live.

Rosana DeSoto –
Actress, seen in films such as La Bamba, Stand and Deliver and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. She is best known for her role in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur, the daughter of Chancellor Gorkon.

Her other well known film roles include La Bamba (1987) as Connie Valenzuela, Stand and Deliver (1988) and Family Business (1989).

Rosanna has starred in television, her first TV role was in the TV series A.E.S. Hudson Street (1978) as Nurse Rosa Santiago and starred in the short lived TV series The Redd Foxx Show (1986), she also starred on some TV movies too.

She has made guest appearances on many TV series, some of those appearances range from Cannon, Kung Fu, Barnaby Jones, Barney Miller, Melrose Place, and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Jesse Borrego –
Actor, is a critically acclaimed and has starred in such feature lengths as Mi Vida Loca, directed by Allison Anders, Lone Star, directed by John Sayles, and New York Stories, directed by Martin Scorsese Con Air directed by Simon West, Bound by Honor, directed by Taylor Hackford.

He won a 1993 CineSol SOL award in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The SOL award is given to an individual who is actively working in the film industry with focus on positively enhancing the image and opportunities of Latinos in the industry. Mr. Borrego trained at the California Institute of the Arts and at Sol Son Experimental Theater.

Jesse has had many starring roles in motion pictures as well as in television. He is well known for his lead role in the TV series Fame. Recently, Mr. Borrego played the lead role in the TNT movie Tecumseh, and produced the short film Flat Time with Lupita Productions. He will be seen in the upcoming movie The New World.

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