¡Nosotros! with Elaine Ayala

Fresh from winning a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her contributions to a landmark Washington Post investigation examining the AR-15 — “a lethal weapon with a singular hold on a polarized nation” — Silvia Foster-Frau stopped by our studio to talk with Elaine Ayala about the series that included revisiting an old story: the aftermath of the 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Sprin

Tejano star Shelly Lares joins Elaine Ayala and talks about her childhood friend, Selena Quintanilla Perez, and sings a cappella. Suggested reading: Tejano star holds class, and John Leguizamo showed up Tejano star leaves the stage Wearing a mask, it's not political, Tejano stars says Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Flores might have retired from the state leadership of the United Farm Workers, but there's still lots of activism to do, protecting sunflowers and Brackenridge Park among them. Suggested reading: ‘That was my education:’ Union leader Rebecca Flores, ex-child farm worker, honored in Labor Plaza Ayala: Unions have a lot to celebrate — without them, we’d be much worse

Close confidant and former son-in-law to César Chávez joins metro columnist Elaine Ayala to discuss the past, present and future of the farmworkers movement. Suggested reading: Ayala: It's time we know what FBI, CIA gathered from Chicano civil rights surveillance Biden's re-election campaign picks César Chávez's granddaughter to lead 2024 campaign: Ayala Learn more about your a

In this “Nosotros” episode, Elaine talks with Sarah Gould of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, an entity launched during the pandemic but closing in on its fifth anniversary with exciting news. Suggested reading: Historian hopes to put San Antonio in national spotlight for Mexican American civil rights progress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc

University Health CEO George Hernandez, who’ll retire this year, looks back to the beginning of a now-sprawling public health system. Suggested reading: University Health to buy 68 acres on South Side for future hospital University Health won’t step in to save Texas Vista hospital; it’s working to place its patients. University Health maxes out tax relief for Bexar County hom

A veteran of San Antonio peace initiatives and interfaith dialogue, the Rev. Ann Helmke sees through another blessing of the city’s peacemakers. Suggested reading: Ayala: San Antonio blessed with a peace laureate that feeds the hungry Ayala: San Antonio becomes first city to develop ‘compassionistas’ 'In the city for God' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a

Author, filmmaker and the first Latinx Rhodes Scholar, John Phillip Santos is now helping UTSA build a new school of borderland studies. It’s about time. Suggested reading: UTSA creates new program, bringing disciplines together to study borderlands Sandra Cisneros’ ‘House on Mango Street’ joins list of global classics San Antonio will represent at the Texas Medal of Arts a

Christopher Carmona, visiting professor of Mexican American Studies and English at Our Lady of the Lake University, explores the movement of young Chicano academics who’ve brought to light the state-sanctioned violence by Texas Rangers against Mexican American and Tejano landowners. It happened at the turn of the 20th century. That gave birth to the Refusing to Forget research pr

Throughout its half-century, the Intercultural Development Research Association has worked to one end – making equal educational opportunity a reality. In this episode of “Nosotros,” IDRA president and CEO Celina Moreno says that fight is far from over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices