EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA - Key Persons
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- Housing Counselor Foreclosure Prevention
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This page is a dedication to our late founder, Roberto Felipe Maestas, to his foresight, love, dedication and passion. As Roberto often remarked in the spirit of Cuban revolutionary poet, Jose Marti,
Roberto Felipe Maestas, long-time executive director and a founder of El Centro de la Raza, was born July 9, 1938, on a subsistence plot in the village of San Augustin del Valle de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, near Las Vegas, New Mexico. Roberto was six months old when his mother, Lina, died of tuberculosis. He was raised by his maternal grandparents whom he treasured, Don Isidoro and Doña Emilia Vigil, along with 16 other children.
Early in life Roberto's passion for social justice was instilled in him. He sensed the "manifest unfairness" of being forced into the migrant stream at age 14. His memory was vivid, his family having lost their land in New Mexico. "We were pushed off our land and then we became essentially slaves in the fields," he would recall. "… it was clear to me that I needed to learn as much as I could about this system, its history, and its functioning."
Roberto left New Mexico following the migrant stream to Washington, eventually landing him in Seattle in the early 50s. Roberto attended Cleveland High School and worked, among other jobs, as a gas station attendant, an elevator operator at the Smith Tower, a factory worker at Boeing, and a Spanish teacher at Franklin High School. Roberto graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor's in Spanish and Journalism ('66) and Master's degree in Romance Languages and Literature ('71). He was one of the first Chicano graduates of the university, and was recently included in a University of Washington Alumni Association magazine as one of the University's "Wondrous One Hundred." Some of his most recent awards and recognitions include:
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- Secretary of the Executive Committee
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- Homelessness Prevention Program Case Manger
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- Business Opportunity Center Assistant ( AARP )