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ACS Event with MALDEF

  • Berkeley Law, Room 110 225 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA, 94720 United States (map)

Tanya Pellegrini is a Staff Attorney at MALDEF where she litigates civil rights cases in several practice areas, including voting rights, immigrant rights, education, and employment. She will be answering questions about voting rights and the importance of getting out the vote in this coming midterm election.

Earlier Event: September 17
Hispanic Heritage Month Fundraiser
Later Event: September 20
Professional Headshots: Day 1

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.