Along the way, Richard served as the first Archivist of Bexar County [Texas], Office of County Clerk. Thereafter, he taught full-time and served as Director of Ethnic Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University, and has taught part time at Trinity University, Palo Alto Community College, and the School of Aero Space Medicine at Brooks AFB, all located in San Antonio, Texas. His last teaching assignment was at the Crystal City Campus of the Southwest Texas Community College He has also served as consultant and lecturer for the Texas Education Agency, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Labor, and numerous school districts and universities throughout Texas and the Southwest. Apart from doing radio programs in English for WOAI and in Spanish for KBUC, Richard was also a weekly columnist for the San Antonio Express-News from 1988 to 1993 and since 2002 has authored a weekly column for the Zavala County Sentinel. Being multidisciplinary, Richard was hired by Rio Bravo records to translate hit songs by Garth Brooks, Leeann Rimes and Leroy Parnell for the Spanish speaking market.

Richard began to lecture and publish articles on the Sephardic New Christians and Crypto Jews of Texas, Mexico and the U.S. Southwest as early as 1968, when the topic was considered controversial. Within ten years, the mistrust of both the Hispanic and Jewish communities had been overcome and Richard was sharing the podium at Trinity University with renown Jewish scholar Seymour Liebman. Later, Richard became a feature speaker at Jewish Historical conferences in San Antonio, El Paso, and Galveston, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as Temple Beth El in San Antonio. He has also conducted a mini-course on the Crypto Jews and the Mexican Inquisition at the Jewish Community Center of San Antonio. Autos de Fe of the Portuguese Conspiracy held by the Holy Office of the Inquisition of Mexico City 1646-1648 was released as a tester in 1999. It was followed by SILENT HERITAGE in 2000 and is the latest contribution of Richard G. Santos to the field of Crypto Judaic studies.

Richard is a member of the Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association. He is also a founding member of the Nacimiento del Camino Real Association. Although Richard G. Santos has two book manuscripts pending publication, he is looking forward to Mockingbird Films and Canal Studios of Italy filming and releasing his screenplay on the trial of Nuevo Leon founder Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva by the Mexico City based Inquisition. Titled Yzabel, the film is scheduled for release in late 2009.

Richard G. Santos provided this biography to Bea McKinney, February 2008.

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