Dr. Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Chair, Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization at ASU, spoke on March 24, 2009. Dr. Vélez-Ibáñez talk focus: "For many in the Southwest North American region, events and history have prevented the development of a single tracked citizenship-based personality development in which our beings are tied only to an American civil life. The acculturation model has been pretty much devastated by the recognition that there are multiple dimensions of cultural personalities that cannot be reduced to simple unilineal identities. We live American civil lives but contextualized within multiple transnational and transborder points of reference."