[CW-Grad] Alba Cruz-Hacker's doing great things

[Robin Russin]

Great news, Alba! Congrats!

Robin


On Feb 2, 2010, at 5:20 PM, cwhitney wrote:



> From: Alba Cruz-Hacker <albacruzhacker at yahoo.com>
> Date: February 2, 2010 4:56:55 PM PST
> To: Chuck Whitney <chuck.whitney at ucr.edu>
> Subject: Alba Cruz-Hacker's poem chosen by the Iberoamerican Diplomatic Corps in L.A.
> 
> My poem "Salmo por Haiti" (Psalm for Haiti) has been chosen as the official poem for the campaing "Iberoamerican Consulates in Los Angeles United for Haiti."  Sixteen countries of the Diplomatic Corp are part of this initiave that includes newspaper ads, radio spots, television appearances and printed materials.
> The first round of radio spots will be recorded tomorrow for W Radio (690 AM).  The Consul General of the Dominican Republic, Honorable Celeste Jimenez, will be reading my poem as part of the radio spot.  In the next week or so, I will be going to K-LOVE (107.5 FM), part of the Univision family, invited by the renowned Carlos Alvarez
> to read the poem as part of this humanitarian campaign. I am including a picture taken during our last meeting, which took place in the facilities of the General Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles.
> The picture was taken by my husband, Kelly Hacker. FYI, Uruguay is not included in the picture because they joined us a couple of days ago.
>  
> In other news, I received a recognition from the City of Los Angeles for my participation in the Shaping Black Culture in the Diaspora and the International African Diaspora Day.
> I have included a picture of the certificate of appreciation, signed by Councilmember for the 8th District, Mr. Bernard C. Parks.
>  
> Perhaps you can let others know.
>  
> Thank you so much,
>  
> Alba 
> 
> 

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