Recipient of the Coming Up Taller Award presented by the Presidential Committee on Arts and Humanities (2002)
Profiles of Excellence Award from KGO Television
Familias Unidas Award for Cultura Real
La Promesa Award from the National Latino Children's Agenda for excellence in Latino children's programs
Through the work of Los Cenzontles Touring Group - which undertook a successful tour (Cuatro Maestros)
to seven California communities in Summer 2001 and embarked on an international research-performance project in collaboration with
Radio Bilingüe in 2003 - LCMAC has become recognized on both sides of the border as an important center for the research, preservation, and dissemination of traditional Mexican culture.
Founding Director Eugene Rodriguez:
Panelist the Ford Foundation's Learning Meeting of Media, Arts & Culture (MAC) and Transnational Economic Justice Initiative (TEJI)
Arts Leadership Fellow of the National Arts Strategies and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation
Director's Award from the California Arts Council for outstanding leadership in the arts (2002)
Recipient of three awards from the U.S. Mexico Fund for Culture
Recipient of the Contra Costa County Arts Commission Arts Recognition Award
Nominator for the Creative Work Fund
Panelist at the II Forum on The Cultural Dimension of Transnational communities, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico
Speaker, the Latinization of America conference at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California
Speaker at the Immigrant and Refugee Artists in the SF Bay Area for the Northern California Grantmakers
Presenter at the Support Systems for Immigrant and Refugee Arts Conference for the Fund for Folk Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Member of the Arts and Culture Planning Committee and the Art Learning Initiative for the Alameda County Office of Education
