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Arturo Madrid is the Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
at Trinity University and a recipient of the National Endowment of the
Humanities’ Charles Frankel Prize. The descendent of a Spanish-Mexican family
that settled in New Mexico in 1608, Madrid has long been involved in the legal,
educational, and cultural affairs of Latinos. In 1984 he founded the Tomás Rivera Center, the nation’s first institute for policy studies on Latino issues. He
also served as national director of the Ford Foundation’s Graduate Fellowship
Program for Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans. A strong
advocate for the expansion and improvement of higher educational opportunities,
Madrid served as director of the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary
Education. He’s also a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, the nation’s
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