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Interviewer
Rafael Delgadillo
Contributor
Max Krochmal
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
10-9-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1970
Description
Daniel Castellanos is a reconstruction worker and organizer who was born in Lima, Peru, on November 21, 1970. He grew up in Lima, where his family worked in a wholesale fruit market, an experience he described as his "first university." He studied industrial engineering at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal but did not complete his degree due to increasing political violence and personal circumstances. He later became a successful entrepreneur in the textile industry before facing financial ruin. He immigrated to the U.S. in 2004, first to Virginia and then to New Orleans in 2006. In New Orleans, he became a prominent labor organizer, co-founding the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice and the Congresso de Jornaleros, drawing on his personal experiences with exploitation as a guest worker.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
2005 to present
Duration
1:48:01
File Size
4.07 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Castellanos, Daniel and Delgadillo, Rafael, "Oral History Interview with Daniel Castellanos (Part 2)" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 25.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/25
Comments
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