Texas Diversity Council: Greater San Antonio Chapter Meeting

7411 John Smith Drive,San Antonio TX 78229

16 November, 2022

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Diversify your business network and create new connections with other business professionals and DEI leaders in your community. Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month at the Greater San Antonio Chapter Meeting of the Texas Diversity Council. Topic: Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation "Reversing Extinction" Speaker: Ramon Juan Vasquez, Executive Director of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions Bio: Ramon Vasquez was born in San Antonio and is an enrolled member of the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation. He currently serves as Executive Director of the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions, a 501c3 nonprofit that serves the indigenous population of Central and South Texas. In this capacity Ramon has spent the last 20 years working on community mobilization in the areas of domestic violence, promoting positive images of fatherhood and confronting male stereotypes and falsehoods. Ramon has served as the Mayor’s Appointed Chairman for the Violence Prevention and Recidivism Reduction Committee for San Antonio’s “My Brother’s Keeper,” as well as, the Mayor’s Taskforce on Police and Community Relations. He has developed community/academic partnerships primarily focusing on reversing extinction of the American Indian descendants of the Spanish Missions of Northeastern Mexico and South Texas. In 2006 Ramon co-founded the National Urban Indian Family Coalition, now headquartered in Seattle Washington. He also is the co-founder and Vice President of the Land Heritage Institute Foundation in Bexar County. In 2014 he co-founded the Texas Heritage Project, which is now in partnership with Texas A&M University - San Antonio. Host & Lunch Sponsor: Galen College of Nursing