The sold-out event on March 29 featured the Inaugural Hispanic Coalition of Small Business Lifetime Achievement Award, which was given to Pepe Serna, one of the longest working actors in Hollywood.
Business offices at Cal State San Bernardino and its Palm Desert Campus will be closed Monday, March 31, in observance of the state holiday commemorating the birthday of the late labor leader, César Chávez. CSUSB is also the site of the 2025 César E. Chávez Memorial Breakfast on Saturday, March 29. The event is sold out.
Enrique Murillo Jr. (education) was interviewed about the upcoming LEAD Summit XIII, Sept. 27, at CSUSB, Kathryn Ervin (theatre arts, emerita), president of the League of Women Voters San Bernardino Area, talked about the upcoming Citizen Achievement Awards on Oct. 6, and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) discussed the political violence and the November presidential election.
In addition to panel presentations on its theme, “El Plan de San Bernardino: Transnationalism, Academic Mobility, and the Reframing of Education,” the summit will feature a morning performance by two-time Grammy Award-winning group, Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea, and keynote address by veteran actor, artist, activist and motivational speaker Pepe Serna.
The month-long celebration’s theme is Somos CSUSB/We Are CSUSB, uniting the campus community through dancing, educational speakers, community building, familial traditions y más.
Pepe Serna, whose acting career has spanned more than five decades, more than 100 films and 300 TV shows, and a memorable role in the movie “Scarface” with Al Pacino, is the Padrino de Honor (Honorary Chair) of LEAD Summit XIII. Register now for the free Sept. 27 conference at Cal State San Bernardino.
The theme of the 2024 LEAD Summit is “El Plan de San Bernardino: Transnationalism, Academic Mobility, and the Reframing of Education,” which will examine the binational relationship from the prism of education. Register now for the Sept. 27 summit at Cal State San Bernardino.
Videos from the Building Academic Exchange Bridges Across Borders (California-Mexico and Beyond) 2024 meeting, which included CSUSB’s LEAD Projects, are now available on-demand online. The February sessions at Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, were part one of the meeting; part two will take place at the annual LEAD Summit on the CSUSB campus in September.
Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) was interviewed about increasing hate incidents targeting the Latino community (the segment also featured the Raza Database Project housed at CSUSB’s Latino Education and Advocacy Days project), and in a separate news segment, about the increase in hate incidents directed at Muslims and Jews.