{"id":14085,"date":"2021-03-30T14:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=14085"},"modified":"2021-04-02T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:53:20","slug":"frieda-garcia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/dominicans\/frieda-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieda Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/VLo2PoOuaXE&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69df22be3f212{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1531757307180 vcex_69df22be3f212\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Organizing the Latino Community: Frieda Garcia<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617375191383{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]A native of the Dominican Republic, Frieda Garcia is a longtime community activist in Boston and a pioneer in providing opportunity and services for the city&#8217;s Latinos. She came to the US as a child in the 1940s, settling with her family in New York City. Earning her degree in social work at the New School for Social Research, she moved to Boston in 1965 where she worked in the newly established Roxbury Multi-Service Center. As the city\u2019s Latino population surged, Garcia worked with local teachers to assess the needs of low-income Puerto Rican and Dominican families in Roxbury and Dorchester. Securing funding from federal anti-poverty programs, she became the founding director of La Alianza Hispana (the Spanish Alliance) in 1971, the first multiethnic Latino service organization in Boston. She later went on to work at the Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center in the South End and in 1981 became the executive director of United South End Settlements, a community service organization that included the Harriet Tubman House. 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