Linda Caballero Sotelo, is an MPA graduate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also the Executive Director & Chief Curator of New Americans Museum & Immigration Learning Center [NAM] in San Diego, CA. NAM is a visual arts & oral histories museum, advocacy & research NGO whose mission is to document, educate about and disseminate the contributions of multigenerational immigrants & refugees into the American narrative through arts, culture, and civic programming to confront & dispel stereotypes, & hate. Throughout her career, Linda’s work has centered on service while dismantling systems of oppression, uplifting community self-
determination, and social justice. She believes in the power of civic engagement and cultural public policy practices as tools for social change and for building understanding & tolerance.
Linda, a US citizen, was born in Tijuana, Mexico. She is a transnational, bicultural, Mexican-American leader and scholar whose childhood was spent crossing an international border daily for educational opportunities. She credits those experiences as informing and profoundly shaping her inclusive and pluralistic world view, understanding the painful, and difficult challenges of being misunderstood or unwelcome as an immigrant, refugee, or marginalized person in a world of
inequality, conflict and flux; yet fueled by human resilience and hope.
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Facilitating the conversations are award-winning filmmakers and SDFC co-founders Benito Bautista and Emma Francisco Bautista, and Alicia de Leon Torres, Deputy Director of the Nemeth Foundation and SDFC Board Member. Sound design and edit by SDFC Technical Director, Miko Aguilar. Key art design by SDFC Communications & Social Media Manager, Tiara Liz Deriquito.
Nemeth Narratives is presented by The Nemeth Foundations in partnership with San Diego Filipino Cinema and New Americans Museum
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