Priscilla Falcón

Priscilla Falcón (born 1940) is a professor emeritus of Chicano/a and Latinx studies at University of Northern Colorado and a Chicana activist. She also publishes under the name Priscilla Falcon-Lujan. After her husband Ricardo Falcón was murdered, she became an outspoken activist for the Chicano/a Movement.

Biography Priscilla Falcón was born in 1940. Her family traveled from Mexico to Northeastern Colorado between 1900 and 1930 to become farm laborers. She first worked in the sugar beet fields when she was 7 years old. They settled in Alamosa.

Falcón attended University of Colorado Boulder. She was recruited through the Migrant Action Program. In 1968, she traveled to Brighton to support Guadalupe Briseño in the Kitayama Carnation strike.

On August 30, 1972, Falcón's husband Ricardo was shot and killed in New Mexico on the way to a La Raza Unida convention. The couple had been organizing for La Raza Unida Party in Weld County and Ricardo was running for Sheriff.

In 1973, Falcón and other educators created a free school in Brighton for students who were pushed out of traditional schools, called La Academia Ricardo Falcón after her late husband.

In the 1990's, she traveled to be an observer of the EZLN Zapatista Army of National Liberation zones in Chiapas.

She is an organizer for advocacy group Al Frente de Lucha. One major project is the Tierra Amarilla Youth Leadership Institute for high school students, and Migration Sin Fronteras.

Falcón has been an expert in Colorado Chicano history and has been interviewed for or participated in documentaries and works about the movement. 2016 "Anciana" award, from Cezar Chavez Peace and Justice Committee of Denver 2002, Al Frente de Lucha honoree