DISCOVERING, SUPPORTING, PROMOTING, MENTORING

The Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors (CALMA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering, supporting, promoting, and mentoring Latino writers and authors in Colorado.

Are you an Aspiring Writer?
Join our mentor program!

CALMA offers a unique mentoring program open to all aspiring writers.

Our organization supports many published authors who are willing to volunteer their time and talent and are eager to serve as mentors to writers just like YOU.

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Featured Author of the Month:

Elizabeth Escobedo

Elizabeth Escobedo is an associate professor of Latinx history, with a specialization in 20th century Mexican American history, at the University of Denver. She enjoys teaching a wide-range of topics in U.S. history, including modern America, the Latinx and Chicana/o/x experience, women and gender, and the history of race and ethnicity. Her award-winning book, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives on Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front, was published with University of North Carolina Press in 2013, and this research is featured in two PBS documentaries, “Zoot Suit Riots” and “Latino Americans.”