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Emily Cao is a student majoring in journalism at USC. With a particular interest in local politics, arts and culture, Cao’s work appears in campus publications like Annenberg Media and The Daily Trojan

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Enrique M. Buelna is a faculty member in the History Department at Cabrillo College. He specializes in Chicano history with an emphasis on class, race, labor, radical activism, civil rights, immigration, culture, and identity. He is the author of Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice (2019). Dr. Buelna earned his doctorate in history from the University of California, Irvine, and holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Washington, Seattle.

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