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Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

Helped lead the protests against PBS. She is the associate director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas. Since 1999, she has spearheaded the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project. She is also the editor of the book Mexican Americans and World War II. She joins us from Austin, Texas.

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