Armando Rendón
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Location | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Introduction | My hometown is San Antonio, Texas. I now live near Berkeley, California. In 1971, I authored Chicano Manifesto, dealing with the Chicano Movement. Besides a career in public affairs for federal and state agencies, I taught at The American University, in D.C., and for 23 years in the Great Books seminar program at St. Mary's College in Moraga. I obtained the Juris Doctor at A.U. in 1982, researched and wrote a seminal work on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and since have worked with Chicano and American Indian human rights groups. A highlight of my work with indigenous groups was delivering an intervention at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 1995, presenting the case against the human rights violations inherent in Proposition 187. I launched Somos en escrito -- www.somosenescrito.com -- in November 2009 to promote and enhance the spread of Chicano and Latino literature. I now devote my writing to adventure novels with an historical/autobiographical basis aimed at middle and high school readers. Two of my first four novels earned International Latino Book Awards in 2014 and 2015. |
| Interests | Chicano and Latino Literature, Publishing, History, Blogging, Writing for Middle and High Schoolers |