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By Rachel Showstack Imagine that you recently moved to a country where almost everyone else speaks a language that you do not know well. You … Read more

By Rachel Showstack, Paul Spacek & Sarah Hoy  Healthcare administrators often find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to providing … Read more

Por Pilar Ortega y Rachel Showstack Usted es una enfermera que trabaja en un hospital en los EE. UU. y habla inglés y español porque creció ... Read more

Por Francisco (‘Paco’) Martínez y Rachel Showstack Si Ud. es un paciente que necesita recibir atención en su propio idioma cuando va al médico ...

Por Francisco (‘Paco’) Martínez y Rachel Showstack Si es usted un médico en los Estados Unidos que atiende a pacientes cuyo idioma preferido no es el inglés ...

Kansas residents from Guatemala who speak the Mayan languages K’iche’, Akateko, Q’anjob’al, and Aguacateko spoke with Alce su Voz on…

Por Rachel Showstack y Rommy Vargas-Bezzubikoff* Como han proclamado los habitantes de Kansas lingüísticamente diversos en reuniones comunitarias en todo Kansas

Civic participation activities, like voting, volunteering, talking with elected officials, community gardening, or group activities like…

By Kelly Guzman, with contributions by Rachel Showstack Kelly Guzman is a bilingual mental health clinician with a private practice in…

By Rachael Showstack Education has long been considered a “social determinant of health” (SoDH), or a condition in which people live that affects their overall … Read more

Equipo de intérpretes aprende sobre las leyes y regulaciones de acceso lingüístico y se pregunta por qué Kansas no las sigue…

Interpreter Team Learns Language Access Laws and Regulations and Asks Why Kansas does not Consistently Follow Them Title VI of the Civil…

Did you know that the population in Ford, Seward, and Finney counties in rural southwest Kansas is over 50% Hispanic/Latinx? Dodge City,…

I’m writing this post in Coffeyville, Kansas, where I just spent three days meeting with Mayan families, community leaders, and…

By Savannah Paschal and Rachel Showstack Alce su voz has an exciting lineup of Spanish-language workshops planned for this spring and summer, starting with a … Read more

by Rachel Showstack Alce su voz community members gathered last Saturday at the Evergreen Community Center and Library to collaborate on our newest funded initiative … Read more

By Devin Hamm, Madison Coleman, Cynthia Hermosillo, and Payton Dearmont This fall semester, the students in Dr. Rachel Showstack’s “Spanish in the U.S.” class designed … Read more

by Rachel Showstack Did you know that your health is influenced by your zip code? Public messaging often presents good health as the result of … Read more

Alce su Voz (‘Speak out’) has been getting to know Guatemalan indigenous individuals who live in southwest and southeast Kansas and learning about the multiple … Read more

By Rachel Showstack In the Alce su Voz (‘Speak out’) community, we talk a lot about the importance of sharing our testimonios, the stories that we … Read more

por Alondra Aguilera ¡Hola! Soy Alondra Aguilera y soy estudiante de tercer año de educación en español en la Universidad Estatal de Wichita. Ademas de … Read more

Last month, I posted a video of my former graduate student Iván García-Mijares sharing a story about a time he had to interpret very serious … Read more

by Rachel Showstack The Alce su Voz team is excited to announce two grants to support our projects! In this post, we present the purpose … Read more

By Rachel Showstack Maybe you’ve seen our name, Alce su Voz, and some of our posts, and you want to know more about what we … Read more

by Rachel Showstack Alce su Voz’s inaugural workshop series was a great success! We offered a series of educational workshops for Wichita’s Spanish-speaking community, with … Read more