Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm
Gina Gamboa, from Chicago, is co-founder and co-director of 18th Street Casa de Cultura. For over 30 years she has been dedicated to creating bilingual, culturally relevant programming in communities and schools to cultivate literacy, healthy identity development and multi-generational, multi-cultural sharing of knowledge and values. She has been an innovator and leader in developing arts and cultural projects over several decades, including: hACE Arte y Cultura en la Educación; the Chicago Children’s World Music Festival; VOCES Literacy and Culture Festivals; the Feria del Libro Mexicano y Latino en Chicago; Son Chiquitos; Son y Arte; and La Escuelita del Barrio.