Estoy Aqui: Finding Your Roots in the Lehigh Valley

Join PBS39 for a special screening of Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots on April 24, 2025.

Immerse yourself in an evening of cultural exploration and community connection. Watch as ancestral journeys unfold in ‘Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots,’ then listen as local community members step forward to share their own remarkable stories. The evening reaches its peak with a shared meal that celebrates our diverse backgrounds and brings us together as one community.

Community Speakers

• Iris Cintron
• Nancy Matos Gonzales
• Julio Guridy
• Christian Maldonado
• Roy Ortiz
• Myrna Rivera

Moderator: Genesis Ortega, Allentown City Director of Communications

Special Thanks

• Angela Baio
• Javier Diaz
• Antonia Fernandes, Northampton Community College
• Hilda Gonzalez
• Guillermo Lopez
• Myrna Rivera

Articles for Further Reading

Hispanic Roots of Bethlehem

About Finding Your Roots

For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season 11 is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, and Kunhardt Films, in association with WETA Washington, D.C.. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the writer, host, and executive producer. Dyllan McGee and Peter Kunhardt are executive producers. Sabin Streeter is the senior producer. Natalia Warchol is the series producer. Deborah Clancy Porfido is the supervising producer. Kevin Burke is the producer. Robert L. Yacyshyn and Leslie Brown are line producers. Sam Hartley is the coordinating producer. Sabin Streeter and Krista Whetstone are directors.

Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members; and by public television viewers.