Hosts Sydnee Roddy and Carmen Ramos Chandler continue their conversation with California State University, Northridge history professor Patricia Juarez-Dappe about the lessons chocolate can teach us about Mesoamerican civilizations, colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and 20th century human trafficking, and the Industrial Revolution. Click here to learn more about Juarez-Dappe’s chocolate research.© 2024 California State University, Northridge

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Host Carmen Ramos Chandler talks to computer science alum with George Salas about his memories of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Salas was a senior looking forward to his last semester at the university when a 6.7-magniture earthquake struck, destroying the university as he knew it. Click here to learn more about the earthquake’s impact on the CSUN campus.© 2024 California State University, Northridge

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Hosts Sydnee Roddy and Carmen Ramos Chandler talk with California State University, Northridge history professor Patricia Juarez-Dappe about the lessons chocolate can teach us about Mesoamerican civilizations, colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and 20th century human trafficking, and the Industrial Revolution. Click here to learn more about Juarez-Dappe’s chocolate research. Episode 3 will continue conversation about the “darker side” of chocolate with Juarez-Dappe.© 2024 California State University, Northridge

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Filmed by: CSUN Marketing Videography Team Edited by: CSUN Marketing Videography Team Music by: Epidemic sound (licensed with permission)© 2024 California State University, Northridge

In the inaugural episode of Matador Memories, host Carmen Ramos Chandler talks with Cynthia Rawitch, former CSUN Vice Provost, journalism professor, publisher of the Daily Sundial and interim dean for the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication. Rawitch shares her memories of what happened on Jan. 17, 1994 during the Northridge Earthquake and its impact on the university. Visit the link below to learn more about the earthquake’s impact on the CSUN campus.  https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/university-news/30-years-later-remembering-the-northridge-earthquake/© 2024 California State University, Northridge