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Daniel Salcido is a Chicana/o/x-Mexicana/o grassroots community scholar-activist, he has been involved in various social justice movements. Born and raised in Denver Colorado with family roots in New Mexico, his activism career started as a historically underserved youth through the Tierra Amarilla Youth Leadership Institute, which transformed him into a promotoro and community leader within that organization. For Salcido, the awakening of a people’s history on what was considered liberated territory signified the connections between alternative forms of educational spaces, critical thinking, and cultural resistance to settler colonialism. Daniel has been mentored by local activists from the Chicana/o movement era who instilled in him the value of commemorating martyrs and others who suffered political repression. This has informed his ongoing work against the dismal social, political, and economic conditions that the Chicana/o/x-Mexicana/o people are currently subjected to. Daniel's academic work has also been informed by his activism. During undergrad, he served as the Beyond Chicanismo Oral History Project Event Coordinator, leading to four student-produced anthologies, two books, and over 100 oral history videos that detail the Colorado experience of los otros del movimiento. Daniel is currently seeking an M.A. in Chicana & Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include alternative education/critical and radical pedagogies, oral history, anti-colonialism, internal colonialism, and the Chicana/o/x -Mexicana/o radical tradition. He is also part-time Chican@/x Studies Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the Metropolitan State University of Denver teaching a Concurrent Enrollment Introduction to Chicana/o Studies course at West High School.

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Research interests include: alternative education/critical and radical pedagogies, oral history, anti-colonialism, internal colonialism, and the Chicana/o/x -Mexicana/o radical tradition.

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Critical Pedagogy | Oral History | Internal Colonialism | Decolonization | Social Movements