La Raza Board Dinner with Faculty Advisors

The Raza board went to dinner at Professor Altholz's home in San Francisco on 9/28 with her partner Hector, Professor Haney-Lopez, Professor Robinson. Professor Altholz's son, Cassius made a menu of drink and food options. We sipped on the signature drink of the night, palomas, while catching up with each other and the professors. For dinner, Anya led us in a Shabbat prayer and we had homemade tacos de carne and de rajas, cornbread souffle, salad (made by Professor Haney-Lopez), and ice cream sandwiches for dessert! We talked about upcoming events and ways to increase student and faculty diversity.

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.