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[[File:Nina3-682x1024.jpg|thumb|Nina Serrano Author photo]]'''Nina Serrano''' (born 1934<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/|title=Home -|website=ninaserrano.com|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>) is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer who lives in [[Oakland, California]]. She is the author of ''Heart Songs: The Collected Poems of Nina Serrano'' (1980) and ''Pass it on!: How to start your own senior storytelling program in the schools'' (Stagebridge). Her poems are widely anthologized, including the literary anthology, ''Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California'' ([[Heyday Books]]), and three anthologies of peace poems edited by Mary Rudge from Estuary Press. She has also translated two chapbooks from Peruvian poet [[Adrian Arias]]. She currently leads storytelling workshops at senior centers and elementary schools through Stagebridge.org. She is the former director of the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program and the Bay Area's Storytellers in the Schools program. A Latina activist for social justice, women's rights, and the arts.
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'''Nina Serrano''' (born 1934<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/|title=Home -|website=ninaserrano.com|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>) is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer who lives in [[Vallejo, California]].<ref name="foundsf">{{cite news |last1=Elliot |first1=Lisa Ruth |title=Oral History: Nina Serrano |url=https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Oral_History:_Nina_Serrano |access-date=21 July 2021 |agency=Found SF |date=2016}}</ref> She is the author of ''Heart Songs: The Collected Poems of Nina Serrano'' (1980) and ''Pass it on!: How to start your own senior storytelling program in the schools'' (Stagebridge). Her poems are widely anthologized, including the literary anthology, ''Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California'' ([[Heyday Books]]), and three anthologies of peace poems edited by Mary Rudge from Estuary Press. She has also translated two chapbooks from Peruvian poet [[Adrian Arias]]. She currently leads storytelling workshops at senior centers and elementary schools through Stagebridge.org. She is the former director of the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program and the Bay Area's Storytellers in the Schools program. A Latina activist for social justice, women's rights, and the arts.

==Biography==
==Biography==


=== Early life ===
=== Early life ===
Serrano was born in 1934 in [[Weehawken, New Jersey]]<ref name="wisconmum" /> to Ida and Joseph Serrano.<ref name="santacruzjoseph">{{cite news |title=Joseph Serrano |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/67994032/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20%22ida%20serrano%22&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=28 August 1987}}</ref> She grew up in Latino and other immigrant communities in New York City.<ref name="wisconmum" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/about-nina-serrano-2/|title=About Nina -|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref> She trained in theater,<ref name="dailynews">{{cite news |last1=Wahls |first1=Robert |title=Nina's Cross |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/447667111 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=New York Daily News |date=12 December 1948}}</ref><ref name="sfexaminer1963">{{cite news |last1=Leeds |first1=Claire |title=Creative Drama Class for the Restless Teens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/458280753/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20&match=1 |access-date=21 July 2021 |agency=The San Francisco Examiner |date=12 February 1963}}</ref> studied [[anthropology]] at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], and traveled with student peace groups to [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] and revolutionary China in the 1950s.<ref name="wisconmum" /><ref name="wisconjour">{{cite news |title=Red China's Trip Light Fantastic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/397170261/?terms=nina%20serrano%20landau&match=1 |access-date=20 July 2021 |agency=Wisconsin State Journal |date=8 Nov 1957}}</ref><ref name="wisconjour2">{{cite news |title=Ex-UW Student Edits Newsletter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/401060673/?terms=nina%20serrano%20landau&match=1 |access-date=20 July 2021 |agency=Wisconsin State Journal |date=1 December 1960}}</ref><ref name="captimes">{{cite news |last1=Hunter |first1=John Patrick |title=Castro Backers Reveal Tour Plan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/519676492/?terms=nina%20serrano%20landau&match=1 |access-date=20 July 2021 |agency=The Capital Times |date=1 December 1960}}</ref><ref name="captimes2">{{cite news |last1=Moe |first1=Doug |title=Following activist parents footsteps |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/525963886/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20greg%20landau&match=1 |access-date=20 July 2021 |agency=The Capital Times |date=1 July 2003}}</ref>
Serrano was born in 1934 in New York City, growing up in Latino and other immigrant communities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/about-nina-serrano-2/|title=About Nina -|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref> She has undergone theater training, studied [[anthropology]] at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], and traveled with student peace groups to [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] and revolutionary China in the 1950s.


While raising her family and teaching, Nina has worked in theater, radio, and film. She helped make movies about Fidel Castro's Cuba, about Salvador Allende's Chile and Sandinista Nicaragua. In Cuba, in 1968, she met Salvadorean exiled poet [[Roque Dalton]] and they co-authored a TV drama about the folkloric Dalton Gang and saw it produced on Cuban television. This instantly made her a writer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/author/|title=Author: Novel, Non Fiction, Scripts and more-|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>
While raising her family and teaching, Nina has worked in theater, radio, and film. She helped make movies about Fidel Castro's Cuba,<ref name="filmfidel">{{cite journal |last1=Landau |first1=Saul |title=Filming Fidel: A Cuban Diary, 1968 |journal=Monthly Review |date=1 July 2007 |volume=59 |issue=3 |page=120 |doi=10.14452/MR-059-03-2007-07_10 |url=https://monthlyreview.org/2007/07/01/filming-fidel-a-cuban-diary-1968/ |access-date=23 July 2021}}</ref> about Salvador Allende's Chile and Sandinista Nicaragua. In Cuba, in 1968, she met Salvadorean exiled poet [[Roque Dalton]] and they co-authored a TV drama about the folkloric Dalton Gang and saw it produced on Cuban television.<ref name="roquedalton">{{cite news |last1=Atwood |first1=Roger |title=Gringo Iracundo, Roque Dalton y su padre |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Felfaro.net%2Fes%2F201407%2Facademico%2F15763%2FGringo-Iracundo-Roque-Dalton-y-su-padre.htm |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=Elfaro |date=28 July 2014}}</ref> This instantly made her a writer.<ref name="ninaserrano.com">{{Cite news|url=https://ninaserrano.com/author/|title=Author: Novel, Non Fiction, Scripts and more-|newspaper=Estuary Press |date=February 2013 |access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>


Returning to San Francisco, journalism, playwriting and poetry filled the early of her development as an activist writer. She wrote a series of articles on the [[Los Siete de la Raza|Los Siete trial]], wrote poetry published in the [[San Francisco Express Times|San Francisco Good Times]]. In 1969, she joined Editorial Pocho Che, an activist publishing group of Latino poets. Since then, she wrote her first book of poetry, ''[[Heart Songs]]'', where it was published during this period and published in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/author/|title=Author: Novel, Non Fiction, Scripts and more-|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref> During the next three decades, she published her next book, ''[[Heart's Journey: Selected Poems, 1980-1999]]'' and ''[[Heart Strong: Selected Poems 2000-2012]]'', as well as in many [[poetry anthologies]]. Through her friendships with Cuban poets, Nina began translating poetry, including her translations of Peruvian poet [[Adrian Arias]]. In 1982, she helped translate the [[Nicaraguan economic program of 1980]], available as a bilingual edition form Estuary Press.
Returning to San Francisco, journalism, playwriting and poetry filled the early years of her development as an activist writer. She wrote a series of articles on the [[Los Siete de la Raza|Los Siete trial]] and wrote poetry published in the [[San Francisco Express Times|San Francisco Good Times]]. In 1969, she joined Editorial Pocho Che, an activist publishing group of Latino poets. She wrote her first book of poetry, ''Heart Songs'', during this period, and it was published in 1980.<ref name="ninaserrano.com"/> During the next three decades, she published her next books, ''[[Heart's Journey: Selected Poems, 1980-1999]]'' and ''[[Heart Strong: Selected Poems 2000-2012]]'', as well as appeared in many [[poetry anthologies]]. Through her friendships with Cuban poets, Nina began translating poetry, including her translations of Peruvian poet [[Adrian Arias]]. In 1982, she helped translate the [[Nicaraguan economic program of 1980]], available as a bilingual edition from Estuary Press.


In 1972, she joined Communicacion Aztlan, writing and producing [[radio programs]] for [[KPFA]]. Over the next 20 years, in addition to her on-going radio work, she wrote and produced several stage plays, including ''[[The Story of the Chicken Made of Rags]]'',<ref name="musicalforchildren">{{cite news |title=Musical for Children |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/462469436/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20%22philip%20serrano%22&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=The San Francisco Examiner |date=13 January 1977}}</ref><ref name="chickenexam">{{cite news |title=On the Town |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/460681837/?terms=%22chicken%20made%20of%20rags%22%20serrano&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=The San Francisco Examiner |date=1 September 1974}}</ref> ''[[The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]]''<ref name="cajewishnews">{{cite news |last1=Fraiman |first1=Michael |title=Ethel and Julius Rosenberg find vindication on stage |url=https://www.cjnews.com/culture/entertainment/ethel-and-julius-rosenberg-find-vindication-onstage |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=Canadian Jewish News |date=24 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="sfexamrosen">{{cite news |title=Drama of Rosenbergs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/460530990/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20%22rosenberg%22&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=San Francisco Examiner |date=18 September 1976}}</ref><ref name="berkgazrosen">{{cite news |title=Coming Right Up |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/608810910/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20%22rosenberg%22&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=The Berkeley Gazette |date=6 August 1976}}</ref> and ''[[Weavings]]''.<ref name="weavingsberk">{{cite news |title=Theatre |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/609258121/?terms=%22weavings%22%20nina%20serrano&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=The Berkeley Gazette |date=14 December 1978}}</ref> She also wrote and produced film scripts, including [[¡Qué hacer!|Que Hacer?]] (What is to Be Done?),<ref name="quehacersun" /> [[Después del terremoto]] (After the Earthquake),<ref name="sfnm2004" /> and [[Back from Nicaragua]].<ref name="pressdemback">{{cite news |title=Anti-war films to debut |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/297280862/?terms=%22back%20from%20nicaragua%22%20seeger&match=1 |access-date=21 July 2021 |agency=The Santa Rosa Press Democrat |date=22 September 1985}}</ref><ref name="ninaserrano.com"/>
In 1972, she joined Communicacion Aztlan, writing and producing [[radio programs for KPFA]]. Over the next 20 years, in addition to her on-going radio work, she wrote and produced several stage plays, including ''[[The Story of the Chicken Made of Rags]]'', ''[[The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]]'' and ''[[Weavings]]''. She also wrote and produced film scripts ([[What Is to Be Done/Que Hacer?]], [[After the Earthquake/Despues del terremoto, Back from Nicaragua]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ninaserrano.com/author/|title=Author: Novel, Non Fiction, Scripts and more-|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>


=== Works ===
=== Works ===
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==== Films ====
==== Films ====


* ''[[¡Qué hacer!|Que Hacer: What is to Be Done?]]''<ref name="quehacersun">{{cite news |title=Film festival awards given |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/377405904/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20%22que%20hacer%22&match=1 |agency=The Baltimore Sun |date=11 December 1972}}</ref><ref name="examinercountryjoe">{{cite news |last1=McDonald |first1=Country Joe |title=The movie is one thing, the soundtrack another |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/460978111/?terms=%22saul%20landau%22%20%22nina%20serrano%22&match=1 |access-date=23 July 2021 |agency=The San Francisco Examiner |date=9 July 1972}}</ref>
* ''Que Hacer: What is to Be Done?''
* ''[[Después del terremoto]]''<ref name="sfnm2004">{{cite news |last1=Silverman |first1=Jason |title=Impassioned voice for an unsung few |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/583698675/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20film&match=1 |access-date=21 July 2021 |agency=The Santa Fe New Mexican |date=13 February 2004}}</ref>
* ''Después del terremoto''
* ''Back from Nicaragua''
* ''[[Back from Nicaragua]]''
* ''La Cantata de Santa Marie de Iquique''
* ''La Cantata de Santa Marie de Iquique''


==== Other Writings ====
==== Other writings ====


* [https://ninaserrano.com/publications/storytelling/ Education for Storytelling]
* [https://ninaserrano.com/publications/storytelling/ Education for Storytelling]
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=== Awards ===
=== Awards ===
Serrano has won several international film awards, including the XXXIII Mostra internazionale D'Arte Cinematografica award for ''[[¡Qué hacer!|Que Hacer: What is to Be Done?]];'' and the Kraków, Poland International Film Festival award for ''After the Earthquake: Despues del terremoto.
Serrano has won several international film awards, including the XXXIII Mostra internazionale D'Arte Cinematografica award for ''[[¡Qué hacer!|Que Hacer: What is to Be Done?]];'' and the Kraków, Poland International Film Festival award for ''After the Earthquake: Despues del terremoto.


Nina Serrano was awarded ''Oakland Magazine'''s "Best Local Poet" award in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Best of Oakland 2010|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland-Magazine/July-August-2010/Best-of-Oakland/|accessdate=April 2, 2012|newspaper=Oakland Magazine|date=July–August 2010}}</ref>
Nina Serrano was awarded ''Oakland Magazine'''s "Best Local Poet" award in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Best of Oakland 2010|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland-Magazine/July-August-2010/Best-of-Oakland/|accessdate=April 2, 2012|newspaper=Oakland Magazine|date=July–August 2010|archive-date=March 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306111426/http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland-Magazine/July-August-2010/Best-of-Oakland/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2024 she received an [[PEN Oakland awards|Adelle Foley Award]] from PEN Oakland for her work as an author, radio host, and political activist.


=== Personal life ===
=== Personal life ===
Serrano served as an [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]] Arts Commissioner, and is a former director of San Francisco's Poetry in the Schools program. She was a co-founder of the [[Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts]] in San Francisco's [[Mission District, San Francisco, California|Mission District]], where she is still actively involved. In addition, she is a long-time producer of radio programs on [[Pacifica Radio]] station [[KPFA]] (94.1 FM) in [[Berkeley, California]], currently hosting ''La Raza Chronicles'' on Tuesdays at 7:00&nbsp;p.m. and ''Open Book'' the first Friday of each month at 3&nbsp;pm PST.<ref>http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=16 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303083045/http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=16 |date=March 3, 2008 }}</ref>
Serrano served as an [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]] Arts Commissioner, and is a former director of San Francisco's Poetry in the Schools program.<ref name="sfexampoets">{{cite news |title=Music, Dancing, and Films Celebrate Women's Day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/461022966/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20%22poetry%20in%20the%20schools%22&match=1 |access-date=21 July 2021 |agency=San Francisco Examiner |date=3 March 1974}}</ref> She was a co-founder<ref name="sfexaminer2007">{{cite news |last1=Vasilyuk |first1=Sasha |title=Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts turns 30 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/566407815/?terms=%22nina%20serrano%22%20poet&match=1 |access-date=21 July 2021 |agency=The San Francisco Examiner |date=18 August 2007}}</ref> of the [[Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts]] in San Francisco's [[Mission District, San Francisco, California|Mission District]], where she is still actively involved. In addition, she is a long-time producer of radio programs on [[Pacifica Radio]] station [[KPFA]] (94.1 FM) in [[Berkeley, California]], currently hosting ''La Raza Chronicles'' on Tuesdays at 7:00&nbsp;p.m. PT<ref name=laraza>{{Cite web|url=https://kpfa.org/program/la-raza-chronicles/|title = La Raza Chronicles Archives| date=July 10, 2023 }}</ref> and ''Open Book'' the first and second Wednesday of each month at 3:30&nbsp;pm PT.<ref name=openbook>{{Cite web|url=https://kpfa.org/program/cover-to-cover-open-book/|title = Cover to Cover Open Book Archives| date=July 9, 2023 }}</ref> Her programs also air on [[KZCT]] in Vallejo.<ref name="VallejoSun">{{cite news |last1=Zimmermann |first1=Gretchen |title=Grassroots Vallejo radio station promotes local talent |url=https://www.vallejosun.com/grassroots-vallejo-radio-station-promotes-local-talent/ |access-date=26 January 2023 |agency=The Vallejo Sun |date=24 January 2023}}</ref>


Nina Serrano appears in the video "Frida en El Espejo/Frida in the Mirror" by Adrian Arias and music by [[Greg Landau]]<ref>{{YouTube|4Z1nGtb6YWI}}</ref> to be shown at the SF Film Festival in April 2009. She is a great fan of band Carne Cruda and their new song ''Oakland's Tight''. She is consultant for Round World Media and Fig Leaf Technologies.
Nina Serrano appears in the video "Frida en El Espejo/Frida in the Mirror" by Adrian Arias and music by [[Greg Landau]]<ref>{{YouTube|4Z1nGtb6YWI}}</ref> which screened at the SF Film Festival in April 2009. She is a great fan of the band Carne Cruda and their song “Oakland's Tight.” She is consultant for Round World Media and Fig Leaf Technologies.


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Nina Serrano
BornWeehawken, New Jersey[1]
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin
Genrespoetry, plays, historical fiction
Spouses
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(m. 1953; div. 1976)​
[2][3]
Paul Richards
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(m. 1987)​
[2]
ChildrenValerie Landau,[2] Greg Landau[3]
Website
ninaserrano.com

Nina Serrano (born 1934[4]) is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer who lives in Vallejo, California.[5] She is the author of Heart Songs: The Collected Poems of Nina Serrano (1980) and Pass it on!: How to start your own senior storytelling program in the schools (Stagebridge). Her poems are widely anthologized, including the literary anthology, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California (Heyday Books), and three anthologies of peace poems edited by Mary Rudge from Estuary Press. She has also translated two chapbooks from Peruvian poet Adrian Arias. She currently leads storytelling workshops at senior centers and elementary schools through Stagebridge.org. She is the former director of the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program and the Bay Area's Storytellers in the Schools program. A Latina activist for social justice, women's rights, and the arts.

Biography

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Early life

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Serrano was born in 1934 in Weehawken, New Jersey[1] to Ida and Joseph Serrano.[6] She grew up in Latino and other immigrant communities in New York City.[1][7] She trained in theater,[8][9] studied anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and traveled with student peace groups to Soviet Russia and revolutionary China in the 1950s.[1][10][11][12][3]

While raising her family and teaching, Nina has worked in theater, radio, and film. She helped make movies about Fidel Castro's Cuba,[13] about Salvador Allende's Chile and Sandinista Nicaragua. In Cuba, in 1968, she met Salvadorean exiled poet Roque Dalton and they co-authored a TV drama about the folkloric Dalton Gang and saw it produced on Cuban television.[14] This instantly made her a writer.[15]

Returning to San Francisco, journalism, playwriting and poetry filled the early years of her development as an activist writer. She wrote a series of articles on the Los Siete trial and wrote poetry published in the San Francisco Good Times. In 1969, she joined Editorial Pocho Che, an activist publishing group of Latino poets. She wrote her first book of poetry, Heart Songs, during this period, and it was published in 1980.[15] During the next three decades, she published her next books, Heart's Journey: Selected Poems, 1980-1999 and Heart Strong: Selected Poems 2000-2012, as well as appeared in many poetry anthologies. Through her friendships with Cuban poets, Nina began translating poetry, including her translations of Peruvian poet Adrian Arias. In 1982, she helped translate the Nicaraguan economic program of 1980, available as a bilingual edition from Estuary Press.

In 1972, she joined Communicacion Aztlan, writing and producing radio programs for KPFA. Over the next 20 years, in addition to her on-going radio work, she wrote and produced several stage plays, including The Story of the Chicken Made of Rags,[16][17] The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg[18][19][20] and Weavings.[21] She also wrote and produced film scripts, including Que Hacer? (What is to Be Done?),[22] Después del terremoto (After the Earthquake),[23] and Back from Nicaragua.[24][15]

Works

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Poetry

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Films

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Other writings

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Awards

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Serrano has won several international film awards, including the XXXIII Mostra internazionale D'Arte Cinematografica award for Que Hacer: What is to Be Done?; and the Kraków, Poland International Film Festival award for After the Earthquake: Despues del terremoto.

Nina Serrano was awarded Oakland Magazine's "Best Local Poet" award in 2010.[26]

In 2024 she received an Adelle Foley Award from PEN Oakland for her work as an author, radio host, and political activist.

Personal life

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Serrano served as an Alameda County Arts Commissioner, and is a former director of San Francisco's Poetry in the Schools program.[27] She was a co-founder[28] of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco's Mission District, where she is still actively involved. In addition, she is a long-time producer of radio programs on Pacifica Radio station KPFA (94.1 FM) in Berkeley, California, currently hosting La Raza Chronicles on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. PT[29] and Open Book the first and second Wednesday of each month at 3:30 pm PT.[30] Her programs also air on KZCT in Vallejo.[31]

Nina Serrano appears in the video "Frida en El Espejo/Frida in the Mirror" by Adrian Arias and music by Greg Landau[32] which screened at the SF Film Festival in April 2009. She is a great fan of the band Carne Cruda and their song “Oakland's Tight.” She is consultant for Round World Media and Fig Leaf Technologies.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Husband mum on approval disapproval". Wisconsin State Journal. August 15, 1957. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Nicaragua Way: a Novel by Nina Serrano - About the author. Estuary Press. September 2016. ISBN 9780961872588. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Moe, Doug (July 1, 2003). "Following activist parents footsteps". The Capital Times. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
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