About the Participants
JACY DUAN ’21 Student Narrator, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4/27)
JORGE GLEM Cuatro with Betsayda Machado (12/1)
Jacy Duan is a sophomore at Princeton studying Sociology and Theatre. She has acted in and directed many productions at Princeton and is a member of the Triangle Club. She is originally from Los Angeles where she developed her love for the arts from a young age.
Virtuoso of the Venezuelan cuatro, Jorge Glem is a Latin Grammy winner born in Cumaná, Venezuela. He started his musical training at age of six under masters Eberto Zapata and Alexander Mariña. In 2004 he was awarded first place for “Best Cuatrista” in the Llanero Festival “El Silbón de Oro” and second place in the 1st International Exhibition “La Siembra del Cuatro.” He has collaborated with world class musicians such as the Puerto Rican band Calle 13, Gustavo Dudamel, keyboard player Jordan Rudess, singer Rubén Blades and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera. Using unconventional techniques Glem draws a seemingly limitless array of sounds from the cuatro, a four-stringed Venezuelan folk instrument. He is also a mandolinist and producer. Jorge Glem has represented Venezuela and its musical traditions in more than twenty countries including the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Austria, Germany, China, Portugal, Spain, Panama, and many others.
PATRICIA FERNÁNDEZ-KELLY Professor of Sociology; Director of the Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University Panelist (1/7) Fernández-Kelly is a social anthropologist with an interest in international economic development, gender, class and ethnicity, and urban ethnography. As part of her dissertation research in the late 1970s, she conducted the first global ethnography focusing on export-processing zones in Asia and Latin America. Her book on Mexico’s maquiladora program, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico’s Frontier (1983) was featured by Contemporary Sociology as one of twenty-five favorite books in the last decade of the 20th century. She has written extensively on migration, economic restructuring, women in the labor force, and race and ethnicity. With Paul DiMaggio, she produced Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States (2010). With Alejandro Portes she is the editor of The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organization in Four Continents. Her book, The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State (2016) received a C. Wright Mills Finalist Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is currently working on a book entitled Hialeah Dreams: The Making of the Cuban-American Working Class in South Florida. ANNE FITZGIBBON Founder and Executive Director, the Harmony Program Panelist (1/9) Anne Fitzgibbon is Founder and Executive Director of the Harmony Program in New York City, a non-profit music education organization inspired by Venezuela’s national system of youth orchestras, El Sistema, which Ms. Fitzgibbon studied on a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in 2007. Prior to founding the Harmony Program, Ms. Fitzgibbon worked for five years as a policy advisor in the New York City Mayor’s Office. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, graduated from Barnard College, and studied clarinet at The Juilliard School.
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JAVIER GUERRERO Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University Host of Spanish-language discussion (1/8); Pre-concert panelist (4/26) Javier Guerrero’s research focuses on the intersection between visual culture and sexuality in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin America. His scholarship traces the multiple alterations that the body has undergone in contemporary art, cinema, and literature, but also and most importantly at the intersections of these media. In recent years, he has paid special attention to new materialities and conditions, such as synthetic bodies and darkness, that allow him to reconsider concepts, archives, and knowledges shaped by tradition and binary oppositions. Guerrero is the author of many books including Tecnologías del cuerpo, a book on the Venezuelan filmmaker Mauricio Walerstein, and the novel Balnearios de Etiopía. He is currently working on two new books, Synthetic Skin: On Dolls and Miniature Cultures and The Impertinence of the Eyes: Darkness, Opacity, Blindness. Javier Guerrero holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from New York University and a Licenciatura in Film Studies from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Before coming to the U.S., he was President of the Venezuelan Cinemateca Nacional, where he curated more than twentyfive international film series and festivals.