Elvis Zornoza Homegrown Heroes Full Interview
Item
Title
Elvis Zornoza Homegrown Heroes Full Interview
Identifier
2024.017.005
Type
Moving Image
Description
This interview with Elvis Zonoroza was conducted on July 12, 2024. The interview covers Elvis's earlier life memories within Mexico and America, and the challenges he faced as a deaf individual. These include challenges with communication with other people and the challnges in aclimating to the new lifestyle he experienced when arriving in the US from Mexico. Elvis discusses his education at the California School of the Deaf. After his highschool graduation at CSDR, Elvis innitially sought to persue a cereer in Physical Education, and so he attended Galaudat University in Washington D.C, but had to leave early due to becoming a young father. Elvis recalls his experience first working with community advocacy, which gave him a new perspective on how to help deaf people. After graduation, he got a job as an ASL instructor at the Holy Names Highschool in Oakland which gave him a more in depth understanding behind ASL and its intricacies. Later on down the line, Elvis worked in the Center on Defeness in the Inland Empire (CODIE) where he advocated on behalf of others with the same condition as he. He advocated for their employment, education, and accimation and acceptance within communities. He continues to advocate using his youtube channel which focuses on sports and sports education as well as deaf education.
Subject
Disability Rights
Community Activism
Non-profit organizations
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
California School of the Deaf
Spatial Coverage
Riverside (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
1977-2024
Creator
Scherly Virgill
Date
7/12/2024
Contributor
Elvis Zornoza
Format
.mov
Language
English
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