Interview with Michel Zajur (2025-02-21)
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Interviewees
Michel Zajur
Interviewer
Carter Hutchinson
Study ID
107
Description
Michel Zajur is the founder of the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which has offices in Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia. Michel was born in Mexico and immigrated from his parents to Richmond in the 1960s. He attended J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and Virginia Commonwealth University, while also managing a family restaurant, La Siesta. The restaurant was a community space for the Richmond Latino community, running cultural exchange programming for students across the region. He founded the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in 2000, and shares about the various forms of economic development and community building the chamber has been involved with with the Virginia Latino community.
Note
This interview was conducted in English, and the transcript is in English only.
Topical Subject
Mexican Americans; Lebanese Americans; Hispanic Americans; Latin Americans; Emigration and immigration; Immigrant children; Virginia; Family-owned business enterprises; Restaurants; J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College; Virginia Commonwealth University; Cultural relations; Education; Boards of trade; Governors--Virginia; Ethnic festivals; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Sports franchises; Education; Minority college students--Recruiting; Church work with Hispanic Americans; Economic development; Economic development projects; Immersion method (Language teaching); Warner, Mark R. (Mark Robert); Virginia. Economic Development Partnership; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
City/Location
Chesterfield County (Va.)
Genre
oral histories (literary genre)
Local Genre
oral history; sound recording; text
Type
Sound; Text
Digital Format
audio/mp3
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by Michel Zajur. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Latino Virginia Project and Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Latino Virginia Oral Histories
Contributors
Latino Virginia Project
Source
Interview with Michel Zajur (2025-02-21), Latino Virginia Oral History Project, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
lvoh107_ZajurMichel_interview.mp3
Disciplines
Latin American History | Latin American Languages and Societies | Oral History | Public History | Social History | United States History