ANNOUNCING THE RECIPIENTS OF 2010 ACEQUIA FELLOWSHIPS The Acequia Institute announces the selection of two graduate students as recipients of the 2010 Edwin Sanchez Memorial Graduate Fellowship. Each fellow is receiving the $1000 award. The 2010 Acequia Fellows include Ava Holliday (Anthropology, University of Washington) and Jessica Lozano (Anthropology, University of Washington). The fellows this year are collaborating on the development of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina Law, Politics, and Social Movements. MAJOR GRANT RECIPIENT FOR 2009-10.  In March, 2010, The Acequia Institute awarded a $7,500 grant to the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). The grant supported the 37th Annual Conference held in Seattle in April. The theme of the conference was "Environmental Justice for a Post-Neoliberal World," and included dozens of panels on environmental and food justice. For more information on the conference program, please visit the NACCS home page at: www.naccs.org. Acequia del Cerro, San Luis, Colorado Mission Statement The Acequia Institute, Instituto de la Acequia, is a private non-profit organization dedicated to collaborative research and education for resilience and social justice in acequia farming communities of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion. The Institute exists to protect and promote the acequia institution as one of the oldest forms of local democratic self-government and to nurture traditional forms of regenerative agriculture. The Institute promotes collaborative community-based research through the Acequia Fellows program and makes small grants to community-based organizations working in areas related to environmental and food justice. The Acequia Institute is a federally- registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductable. Board of Directors Devon G. Peņa, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA  Founder and President Joseph C. Gallegos, San Luis Peoples Ditch, San Luis, CO Vice-President Rosalinda Guillen, Community 2 Community, Bellingham, WA Tania P. Hernandez, Peņa Land Conservation and Restoration, LLC Treasurer Rufina Juarez, South Central Farmers Feeding Families, Los Angeles, CA Mario Montaņo, Ph.D., The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Gregory Rockwell, Esq., Private Practice Lawyer and Arbitrator, Seattle, WA Secretary Elisa Sabatini, Ph.D., Los Niņos, San Diego, CA-Tijuana, Mexico Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers Feeding Families, Los Angeles, CA