Jo May Lubo Modesto & Deborah Dozier

Meet the Author Lecture Series at Special Collections Rivera Library University of California Riverside

Thursday, May 8, 2003 3:00 - 4:30PM
Special Collections - 4th floor Rivera Library
Refreshments will be served.

Mrs. Jo May Lubo Modesto is a business woman who has long been active in serving her home community of Cahuilla. She currently lives on Santa Rosa Mountain in Southern Riverside County, the land where her ancestors lived for thousands of years. She is of the same lineage as the heroine in Helen Hunt Jackson's 1880s novel Ramona.

Dr. Deborah Dozier is an Assistant Professor in the American Indian Studies and American Studies Department at Palomar College, San Marcos, California. She teaches courses in American Indian Art History, and is collaborating with Mrs. Modesto in writing a history of the female descendents of Ramona.