Has served on the
Borderlands Theater Board from 1993 to 1995 and again since 2004. He is the
Board President and serves on the Finance Committee and executive
committees.

Diego A.
Navarrette, Jr. graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Liberal
Arts in 1961 with an English Major and a History Minor, and has been involved in
the process of education ever since. His other passion has been in the broad
field of the performing, plastic, and visual arts. He taught high school English
for eight years, than spent twenty-one years teaching Linguistics at Pima
Community College. Following that Mr. Navarrette became Student Activities
Director in which capacity he planned and implemented cultural, athletic, and
social activities for Pima Community College students including many Viet Nam
veterans returning to school under the auspices of the new G.I. Bill. He worked
with the creative writing faculty to sponsor literary magazines. He collaborated
with the Bi-Lingual Program staff to produce a Bi-Lingual Literary magazine. Mr.
Navarette was a founding member of the Tucson Arts Council and a Chicano/a Arts
organization named ARITZLAN (a composite of AZTLAN and ARIZONA), and the Arizona
Humanities Council. He served as an Expansion Arts panelist for the National
Endowment for the Arts for four years, two years as the Chair. He was one of
Borderlands' original Board members. He has served as Board President since he
returned to the Board two years ago.