SFCC News:
Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) and Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe will cohost a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Naturalization Ceremony with 25 applicants, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Jemez Rooms on the SFCC campus at 6401 Richards Ave. in Santa Fe.
Applicants come from the following countries:
- Canada;
- Egypt;
- Guatemala;
- Mexico;
- Israel;
- New Zealand;
- Norway;
- Turkey; and
- United Kingdom.
This event is free and open to the community qnd features guest speaker, Poet Donald Levering.
Levering has been known in the Santa Fe poetry community for more than 40 years reading his poetry and conducting writing workshops. He has published 16 books of poetry and garnered a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other honors.
His work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” podcast. Levering retired from New Mexico state government as a Human Services Department bureau chief. He has lived and taught English on the Diné reservation.
His volunteer work extends from letter writing for Amnesty International to species’ preservation projects with Earthwatch and Enkosini to meal delivery for Santa Fe’s Kitchen Angels. Since 2017, Levering has tutored citizenship applicants with Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe.
For more information, contact: Amanda Rivera de Garcia, SFCC ESL (English as a Second Language) Literacy Coordinator, Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe, 505.428.1167, amanda.riveradegarci@sfcc.edu.
