AATSP NOR/CAL HISTORY

Agnes Dimitriou & Christine Campbell renewed the NorCal chapter. (2012/2013) 

A timeline of NorCal chapter meetings and activities. The locations of chapter activities are in blue.

• Spring 2013 - March 29 – AATSP chapter meeting in Hayward /5-7pm Restaurante Shark Shack
•  Fall 2013 (with FLANC) Oct. 26, Chabot College
• Spring 2014 - Workshops by Martha Escobedo and Fabián Banga: March 8, Berkeley City College*
• Fall 2014 - (with FLANC) Nov. 8, Berkeley City College
• Spring 2015 – Workshops organized by Sandra García Sanborn at CSU Stanislaus, February 21, 10:AM – 1 PM: With free registration, breakfast, and light lunch. Sessions by: América Salazar (San Francisco State University), Alex Prasad and Ana M. Santos (Marvin A. Dutcher Middle School, Turlock), Dalia Magana (University of California, Merced), Hyunsoo Hur (Monterey Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center), Manuel  Murrieta-Saldívar (CSU Stanislaus), Sandy Wagner (Monterey Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)
• Fall 2015 - (with FLANC) Nov. 7, Chabot College 
•  Spring 2016 - Workshops organized by Sandra García Sanborn at Univ. of the Pacific, January 30, 10:AM – 1 PM: With free registration, breakfast, and light lunch. Session I: 10:15- 11:30: (1) Elizabeth Cisneros (University of California, Merced), (2) Frances M. Sweeney (Saint Mary’s College of California, (3) Branka Sarac (Monterey Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center) / Session II: 11:45 – 1:00: (1) América Salazar (San José State University), (2) Miriam Hernández-Rodríguez (University of California, Berkeley), (3) Sandra García Sanborn (CSU Stanislaus)
• Fall 2016 - (with FLANC) Oct. 29, Berkeley City College
• Spring 2017 - Jan 21, Meeting at the Berkeley Language Center**  
• Fall 2017 - (with FLANC) Oct. 21, Chabot College
• Spring 2018 –No chapter meeting. Sandra García Sanborn requested a March date at CSU Stanislaus, but it turned out not to be feasible. Sandra suggested an essay contest as a possible chapter activity. In Spring 2018 the chapter cut ties with its Website provider and sought a new website.
• Fall 2018 - (with FLANC) Oct. 27, St. Mary's College (Frances Sweeney helped organize on her campus)
• Spring 2019 - Workshops at Cindy Avitia Public School, East San Jose, May 11, 10:00 AM  – 12:30 PM: With free registration, breakfast, and     light lunch/ Session I: 10:15 to 11:15 (1) Citlalli Del Carpio and Ali Miano, Stanford University and (2) Claudia Schalesky, Evergreen Valley College / Session II: 11:30 to 12:30 (1) Vanessa Fernández, San José State University, and Brenda Ortiz Loyola, CSU Stanislaus (2) Hanan Khaled, Monterey Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. [(Rubith Huizar reserved the location, and Anne Fountain brought food and beverages for both breakfast and lunch.]
• Fall 2019 – (with FLANC) September 21, Salesian College Prep
• Spring 2020 - [When the pandemic began] # No chapter meeting.  Zoom Meeting of chapter officers.
• Fall 2020 – (with FLANC) October 3, Virtual conference.
• Spring 2021 - May 1 – 9:00 AM -12:00P – Workshops - NorCal Virtual Mini Conference with sessions by Elizabeth Cisneros (UC Merced), Lyris Wiedemann (Stanford University), Sandra García Sanborn (CSU Stanislaus), and Avizia Long, Gerson Morales and Estefany Sosa (San José State).
• Fall 2021 – (with FLANC) July 24, Virtual conference via Zoom.
• Spring 2022 – No chapter meeting. February 2, 2022 @ 2:30 PM Pacific via Zoom - A meeting of the chapter officers:  Avizia Long (President) Rebecca Pozzi (President Elect) Alice Miano (Past President) Christine Campbell (Treasurer) Sandra Sanborn (Communications Coordinator) Raquel Rodriguez (Poster Contest Coordinator) Juan Pino-Silva (Webmaster)
• Fall 2022 – No chapter meeting.
• Spring 2023 – Zoom Workshop, Social Justice and Language Teaching, May 22, 2023 - 4:00 - 5:00 PM, by Rebecca Pozzi, Tracy Quan, and Chelsea Escalante.
• Fall 2023 - (with FLANC) Virtual and hybrid, Nov. 4, (FLANC Hybrid part is for 20 persons at a site in Campbell) The chapter will hold elections virtually and separate from the FLANC conference.
• Spring 2024 - (Exhibit participation, March 7-8, with CLTA in Monterey) Chapter session April 11, 2024, at CSU Monterey Bay and “Indigenous America in our Community and in the Spanish Classroom” joint presentation with Adolfo González (a native speaker of Zapotec).
• Fall 2024 - Oct 7, AATSP Nor Cal Workshop in collaboration with CLTA, CSUMB, and Monterey Bay World Language Project via Zoom
• Spring 2025 - Setting date and location for chapter member Judy Cortes's presentation on her new book Introduction to Educational Translation and Interpretation.
• Fall 2025 – Chapter elections (two-year cycle)

  Compiled by Anne Fountain from email records and files. / October 14, 2023.