Bárbara Renaud González is a free-lance writer, journalist and activist. She received her B.A. and Masters in Social Work and has done post-graduate work at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Her book,
Since 1997, she has focused mostly on her writing starting with journalism, then essays, investigative articles, opinions, poetry and finally to writing a novel. For five years she wrote a column for the
González has done consulting work for several organizations, including the Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice, the Chancellor for Community Development with Dallas County Community College District, Children’s Medical Hospital in Dallas, Texas and she was a special Projects Consultant for Sun Exploration and Production Company. She co-hosted “Between the Lines,” a weekly public television news show on KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas.
González’s commentaries have aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and LatinoUSA and currently she is working on a Tex-Mex fairytale called “La Pinky” for which she received a literature grant from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio.
Her achievements include a Lifetime Achievement Award from La Raza Faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio. González has received the Inter-American Press Association Opinion prize, has been a finalist for six Katies in radio commentary and print, was recognized for the Legacy Award and received the Mexican-American Business and Professional Women’s Association Award for “Cultural Leader.” She was also the only Latina/Chicana on the Dallas Commission for Cultural Affairs and organized and led the effort to create the first Latino Cultural Center.
González currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
The Bárbara Renaud González papers spans the years 1981-2009 and contains manuscripts and parts of manuscripts of
Original audiovisual materials and electronic records are closed to patron use.
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Retains copyright on one folder titled “Rags” with unpublished background stories
There are no known other archival collections created by Bárbara Renaud González at the date of accessioning.
Donation from Bárbara Renaud González in October 2009 (Acc. 2009-056).
The collection is in one accession (Acc. 2009-056) and has been encoded by Tatina Wulzer, Collections Assistant. More detailed processing is not anticipated at this time.
[Identification of item], Bárbara Renaud González Papers, MS 321, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.
The Bárbara Renaud González papers spans the years 1981-2009 and contains manuscripts and parts of manuscripts of
Contains clippings, programs, event fliers, Chicano photographs, and correspondence.
Contains handwritten notes, clippings, correspondence, rough and final drafts of essays, articles and other writings by Gonzalez; event fliers, newsletters, newspapers, and programs.
Consists of ,
Includes handwritten notes, essays, whole and parts of the manuscript for
Includes, books, handwritten notes,
Includes
Consists of proposed book outline, book proposal for
Includes University of Texas press books, manuscript material for
Consists of essays, photographs, manuscript material for
includes two prints, photocopied pages from
Contains audio cassette tapes of radio programs plus 2 microcassettes.
Floppy disks holding backups, essays and other material; VHS tapes with
Floppy disks holding backups, essays and other material, VHS tapes containing the Inter-American Press Awards and González speaking at the Richland Literacy Fest.