Interview with Irene Santos, July 23, 2013

Irene Santos is interviewed on July 13, 2013 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Santos relates her early life working as a migrant worker with her family and the educational limitations that it brought, as well as the exposure to injustices and how those experiences helped shape her activism and encourage her work with UMOS as a coordinator, where she would advocate for the need for a Hispanic director. Santos also speaks of the protests against the city to call for better services, as well as her involvement in language classes and her mentoring of Yolanda Adams, who serves as the Wisconsin state director of LULAC. Santos also talks about her work in cancer awareness, as well as the role her faith played in her role as an advocate in Kenosha.This video interview was conducted by students who participated in a Chican@ and Latin@ Studies (CLS) course at University of Wisconsin-Madison, taught by Andrea-Teresa "Tess" Arenas, Ph.D.. Students were trained in qualitative research methodology a