Ayala: Mexican American Civil Rights Institute getting ‘starter home’ on city’s West Side
Sarah Zenaida Gould, executive director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, with items from the institutes growing archive, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. She has served as the interim director for just over a year but was named the permanent director recently.SAN ANTONIO — It was 2019 and the small staff of the newly formed Mexican American Civil Rights Institute was getting comfortable in its first base of operations at Our Lady of the Lake University.
The organization, new and pliable, was able to grow virtually and nationally before growing physically and locally.MACRI is circling back to its initial goal to establish a headquarters, or what Gould calls “a starter home.” The casita at the corner of Buena Vista Street and Navidad will join a burgeoning West Side corridor where its landlord Henry Cisneros works on his multi-faceted financial-investment and infrastructure-related businesses.
MACRI sees itself growing there because of its civil rights history, Gould said, “but also because we want to be part of how locals and visitors see the West Side.”
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