Choose Empowering Beliefs 

A school poster assignment in which I chose to focus on Canada’s epidemic levels of violence towards Aboriginal women. If you’re interested in learning more, the page for Amnesty Canada’s No More Stolen Sisters provides some basic information. The #MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) tag on Twitter will give you more of a personal idea of how this effects Aboriginal communities across the country.

Our government refuses to even acknowledge that this is a legitimate societal issue, and I think it’s something that deserves a lot more international attention than it has received.

#Elevated_subways at #Queensboro_Plaza.

#New_York_City_Subways #mtanyctransit

These Black women made history.

Violeta Parra, Árbol de la Vida (Tree of Life), 1963

Viva our culture! 

Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Plenary Conference Opening: Race Counts! Welcome

Miriam Jiménez Roman, Executive Director, afrolatin@ forum

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation 

Juan Flores, co-founder, afrolatin@ forum

Round-table Discussion

Pedro Noguera, New York University

Tanya K. Hernández, Fordham University School of Law

Leonardo Reales Jiménez, Human Rights Activist, Storyteller, and University Professor

Tianna Paschel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Rolando Roebuck, Community Activist, Washington, DC

Cultural Presentation RSVP for Thursday Night’s Plenary

Friday, October 24th, 8:30am - 6:00pm Graduate Center, City University of New York 9:00am - 9:15am

Arrival and registration

9:15am - 10:45am

In and Out of Focus: Media and AfroLatin@ Representation

AfroLatin@s in the Classroom: Youth, Education and Culture

11:00am - 12:30pm    

Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime

Taking Measures: AfroLatin@s and Economic Inequities

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm

¿Y nosotros qué?: Acknowledging the AfroLatin@ Immigrant 

AfroLatin@s and Health Disparities: When Both Race and Ethnicity Matter

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Plenary: Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues

5:15pm -  6:45pm

Closing Plenary: Identity, Visibility and Representation: The Role of the Census

Saturday, October 25th, 1:00pm - 6:00pm  El Museo del Barrio 1:00pm - 2:30pm    

Panel: Recounting the Afrolatin@ Artist Experience – Past, Present, & Future

2:30pm - 3:30pm    

Dance and Mask-Making Workshops

3:30pm - 5:00pm         

Musical and Cultural Performances

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Reception

RSVP for Saturday’s Family Day

View schedule HERE

BNV14 Finals - Los Angeles “Somewhere in America”

Having a blast with the youth in Brazil! Every day there's a lot of playing games, giggling, English-Portuguese and so much hugging! What a beautiful exchange of energy, history and knowledge! And Oh yeah, expect a lot of selfies with my Brazilian students! #PortoVelho #Rondonia

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Elementary school in Baltimore where kids get meditation instead of detention - WTF fun facts