From nun to reformer: Socorro Hernández-Bernasconi, the woman who transformed education in Guadalupe - AZ Luminaria

From nun to reformer: Socorro Hernández-Bernasconi, the woman who transformed education in Guadalupe - AZ Luminaria

Leer en español One day in the early 1970s, a child from the town of Guadalupe asked Socorro Hernández-Bernasconi a question: Mrs. Socorro, why do they have us in these classes? Socorro was a counselor in the Tempe Elementary School District. She worked with Yaqui, Mexican and Mexican American children from Guadalupe, a small town southeast of Phoenix founded by Pascua Yaqui Indians. She saw that the children of many Latino farmworkers and immig…