Lupe Anguiano, business executive. member part time faculty Ventura (California) College; member Texas Advisory Council on Technology-Vocational Education California delegate White House Conference on Status Mexican-Americans in the United States, 1967; member President's Council on Private Sector Initiatives, 1983.; Member Association Female Executives, President's Association, American Management Association.
Background
Anguiano, Lupe was born on March 12, 1929 in La Junta, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Jose and Rosario (Gonzalez) A. Student, Ventura (California) Junior College, 1948, Victory Noll Junior College, Huntington, Indiana, 1949-1952, Marymount College, Palos Verdes, California, 1958-1959, California State University, Los Angeles, 1965-1967.
Education
She chose the order for their reputation being advocates for the poor.
Career
She is credited with bringing religious support and helping reframe religious debates to include these nationwide issues. Anguiana was the fourth of six children born in a migrant family who moved from Colorado to California between May and December to harvest fruit, vegetables and nuts. She earned a master's degree in administration and education from Antioch College.
Anguiana joined Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters from 1949 to 1964. She left the church after joining picket lines and protesting a prospective law set out by the California Association of Realtors to reverse the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, which banned racial discrimination by landlords. Anguina went on to work with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1965.
She also consulted with government agencies and testified before state and national legislative bodies. She worked with Cesar Chavez, and in Michigan where she led the grape boycott of 1965. After leaving her post in the government, she focused on the welfare system as a result of becoming “angry at the way in which the system traps young, healthy, and intelligent women.
Makes them dependent on welfare. Destroys their pride and their willingness to work. And keeps them living always under the poverty level.” In 1973, her disillusionment led her back to San Antonio where she became national organizer for the United Farm Workers and founded the National Women’s Employment & Education Inc, which helps single female parents move beyond welfare poverty.
Anguiano was a delegate to the historic "First Women's Conference" in Houston in 1977, where she, Jean Stapleton, and Coretta Scott King read the "Declaration of American Women." In 1996, Congress passed landmark welfare reform legislation that contained many of her ideas. She currently volunteers at the California Coastal Protection Network, the Pacific Environment, and other environmental organizations. Her papers are housed at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
In 2007, she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.
Membership
Member part time faculty Ventura (California) College. Member Texas Advisory Council on Technology-Vocational Education California delegate White House Conference on Status Mexican-Americans in the United States, 1967. Member President's Council on Private Sector Initiatives, 1983.
Member Association Female Executives, President's Association, American Management Association.