Digital Cuentos
The Digital Cuentos project is a compilation of audio visual narratives published by students enrolled through the New Mexico Villages and Cultural Landscapes and New Mexico’s Literary Landscape classes under the supervision of Levi Romero, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UNM. Students were asked to interview a family or community member in a resolana style dialogue. The primary focus of the assignment was to foster conversations between students and people in their lives whose knowledge, wisdom, and histories have been overshadowed by the student’s emphasis on academic study. Inspired by course readings in Resolana: Emerging Chicano Dialogues On Community, students reclaimed personal histories through platicas with family elders and plain ordinary folk who had lived remarkable lives. These written documentations were then transformed into digital stories that reflect current creativities in Chicano/a Studies. The interdisciplinary and documentary studies initiative in CCS addresses contemporary issues and concerns of preservation and sustainability through the physical and cultural mapping of the human terrain. We hope you will enjoy the digital cuentos and be inspired to reflect, document, and most importantly, engage in a platica with someone who is dying to tell you their story.
Spring 2015
- Selenah Kaiser
- Greg Garcia
- Brianna Waggoner
- Edith Garcia
- Shannon Bungart
- Ken Detro
- Elisa Cedillos
- Victor Martinez
- Signe Feddersen
- Yarrow Perea
- Julie Bustamante
- Raquel River
- Joel Wiglesworth
Fall 2014
- Joel Wiglesworth
- Alanna Oldfield
- Mark Fisher
- Sherre Franklin
- Chris Beaty
- Victoria Roybal
- Selenah Kaiser
- Stephen Romero
- Joy Pfeil
- Toribio Garcia
Spring 2014
- Ryan Newbill
- Ashley Leyba
- Cindy Boutelle
- Chris Baca
- AJ Beach
- Ray Ruiz
- Bridget Llanes
- Terrence Baker
- Alanna Ofield
- Angelica Padilla
- Camilo Montano
- Margo Tucker
- Ryan Martinez
- Nicolas Flores
- Jeff Fredine
- Stephen Romero
- Anthony Maestas
- Antonia Romero
- Tony Tafoya
- Jonathan Schneider
- Toribio Garcia
- Cassandra Sanchez
Fall 2013
- Maria Alicia Monclova
- Terence Baker
- Andrea Valenzuela
- Mercedes Avila
- Ben Martinez
- Leslie Plata
- Angelica Padilla
- Sara Eiker
- Elias McEntire
- Alexandrea Pena
- Meghan Brown
- Denna Orr
- Cristina Cervantes
- Ebhen Reed
- Tere Baca
Spring 2013
- Mark Fisher
- Lucia Wilfon
- Marisa Pankey
- Laurence Tratalos
- Alina Gallegos
- Andrew Cordova
- Alyce Ramos
- Andrew Herring
- Bertha Gomez
- Ashley Wegle
- Benjamin Martinez
- Brittany Herrera
- Carl Quintana
- Gloria Martinez
- Daniella Rodarte
- Estevan Meyer
- Brennan Clarke
- Jessica Stevens
- Kathy McCully
- Mariah Maestas
- Michel Wingard
- Stephanie Zuni
- Tere Baca
- Tara Freelander
Fall 2012
- Vincent Spiak
- Alex Donaldson
- Ben McCallum
- Nataly Mijares
- Alina Gallegos
- Tania Martinez
- Jed Webb
- Laurence Tratalos
- Carl Quintana
- Alejandra Parilla-Paz
- Tyler Mundy
- Sage Vogel
- Patricia Valderrama
- Adam Alvarez
- Griffin Arellano
Spring 2012
- Susan Aranda
- Pamela Lunderman
- Marcus Lucero
- Anna Cabrera
- Melissa Gallegos
- Stephen Weinkauf
- Cynthia Killough
- Pete Domenici, Jr.
- Melissa Saenz
- Olivia Romo
- Crystal Quintana
- Denise Rincon
- Rachel August
- Alejandrina Padilla
- Philip Marlowe Johnson
- Adriana Baca
- Mimi Maynard
- Jamie Hensley
- Marcos Lujan
- Natalie Brigance
- Jordan Moore
- Marron Cooney
Check out Professor Romero’s interview about the Digital Cuentos project with the Albuquerque Journal here.
The Digital Cuentos were produced as class projects and are not intended for commercial purposes of any kind.