INROADS TO CHANGE: Winning Entries of the 6th Annual César Chávez Contest

For the sixth consecutive year, the Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts (MICA) is pleased to feature the artistic works of students from the Salt Lake City and Granite School districts with the support of the Utah Coalition de la Raza. This exhibition has become an annual community celebration honoring Mexican-American civil rights leader César Chávez. INROADS TO CHANGE is dedicated to tireless local activist and co-founder of this contest, Frank Cordova, who passed away in late 2013.

Students participating in the contest were asked to respond this year’s theme INROADS TO CHANGE with the following prompt: Mexican American Civil rights activist César Chávez has a street in Salt Lake City street named after him. Other famous leaders for social justice, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., enjoy this same honor. If you could name a street after a leader for social justice who isn’t so famous, who would you choose? It could be someone in your family, community, school, city or state. Express what makes this person so deserving of having a street named in their honor.