Full Name
Antonio Ramirez
Job Title
Associate Professor of History
Institution
Elgin Community College
Speaker Bio
Antonio Ramirez (he/him) is Associate Professor of History at Elgin Community College. Ramirez helped establish and currently directs ECC’s Center for Civic Engagement. Ramirez also served as Director of Outreach and Leadership Development at a transnational migrant rights legal center in central Mexico and as a low-wage worker organizer in Chicago. He also directs the Chicagolandia Oral History Project, which documents the lives of Latina/o residents of Chicago’s suburbs.