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placed her in an internship at a com- munity group called CentroNía, where she has worked the past 24 years, now serving as director of a child-care and community center. “If it wasn’t for this place that supported me and gave me the guidance and gave me the coaching and role modeling, it would have been impossible to make it,” she says. When rioting broke out in the
Mount Pleasant area after police shot an unarmed Latino man in 1991, the city’s black leaders found themselves targets of the kinds of human rights complaints black residents had lodged against the white establishment dur- ing the civil rights movement. Tukeva joined the Latino Civil Rights Task Force and demanded more bilingual programs citywide. When a U.S. Com- mission on Civil Rights included such programs among its recommendations to improve conditions for the city’s im- migrants, Tukeva was enlisted to help. But during a budget crisis just two years later, the school board moved to close Bell and relocate students to nearby Cardozo Senior High. The community, which believed the
city was dragging its feet in implement- ing the civil rights commission’s recom- mendations, marched in the streets and packed school board meetings, prompt- ing the administration to back down. Students, supported by Tukeva, dem- onstrated again when it seemed the city had broken its promise to add a gym and cafeteria to the rundown school. They protested once more in 1997, when a judge temporarily closed Bell and other city schools because of leaky roofs. The school’s nonprofit board, which
included some powerful and wealthy people Tukeva had recruited, began searching for a solution to the school’s infrastructure problems. First, the board sought to acquire a ratty auto repair shop next door for expansion. But the board dropped that idea in favor of building a new school, despite resistance from a cash-strapped school system and a city reluctant to provide land in the gentrifying neighborhood. “I got some building experts to tour
the building with me. The consensus was it was not worth trying to upgrade the 100-year-old building,” said then- board chairman Richard England,
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