Victor Calderin, the advisor to Café Cultura at Hialeah Campus, and Emily Andrea Sendin, the advisor to Urbana at the Eduardo J. Padrón Campus, were inducted into the Florida College System Activities Association Hall of Fame.
They were honored on March 31 during the FCSAA publications conference in Tampa.
Calderin, who earned a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-founded Café Cultura in 2007 and has been co-advisor for fifteen years. Café Cultura has won more than 33 awards from the Florida College System Publication Association and two prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press awards.
Sendin serves as an English, literature and creative writing professor at the Eduardo J. Padrón Campus. Under her guidance for the past thirteen years, the Padrón Campus’ hybrid literary arts magazine has received several prestigious honors such as an Innovation Pacemaker in 2021 and several Pinnacle Awards. This is Sendin’s last year advising the publication.
“It’s an honor to be a part of this organization’s Hall of Fame,” Sendin said. “It’s putting a seal [on] my last year as an advisor.”
