El Centro Newsletter - Fall 2021

EL CENTRO NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2021

Cover artwork for our forthcoming issue of Diálogo,“Gun & Pan Dulce.” by Salomón Huerta

INSIDE: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant............ 6 Diálogo......................................................................... 8 Alumna Spotlight: Maria Pesqueira...............10 2021-22 CLR Faculty Fellows...............................11 CLR Fellow Profile: Rafael Vizcaíno.................12 Upcoming Events....................................................14 Editor Bio...................................................................25

CLR ADVISORY COMMITTEE

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT

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DIÁLOGO

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LATINX GRADUATION

Marisa Alicea, Professor School of Continuing and Professional Studies Carolina Barrera Tobón, Assistant Professor Modern Languages Jacqueline Lazú, Associate Professor Modern Languages Maria de Moya, Associate Professor Public Relations & Advertising

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Julie Moody-Freeman, Associate Professor African and Black Diaspora Studies

11 FACULTY FELLOWSHIP 12 FELLOW PROFILE

Elizabeth Ortiz, Vice President Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity

14 UPCOMING EVENTS 18 PAST EVENTS

José Perales, Director of Operations Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity

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Rose Spalding, Professor Political Science

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Joe R. Tafoya, Assistant Professor Political Science Ionit Behar,Associate Curator DePaul Art Museum

The Center for Latino Research (CLR) strives to open and sustain dialogues which foster the empowerment and advancement of Latinx communities. To that end, the CLR creates learning opportunities for students and supports scholars in their research, while forging collaborative relationships with local, national, and international research partners. We also publish an award-winning scholarly journal, Diálogo, and sponsor many activities on campus, including film series and speaker series.​

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Cover art by Salomon Huerta, "Gun with Pan Dulce," 2016.

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR As we return to campus this fall, we can no doubt expect new challenges. But this year is also beginning with some incredibly good news. In September, we learned that a grant opportunity in which the CLR had participated last year – a request to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – was successful! The Mellon Foundation has awarded DePaul nearly $2 million to create the Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC), a project that will help us build a scholarly community of faculty and students whose work will explore how the humanities can serve as a source of justice and healing for communities of color. The STRC Steering Committee is made up of the group that collaborated in writing the grant: the Center for Latino Research, the Center for African/Black Diaspora, the Department of African/Black Diaspora Studies, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, the program in Global Asian Studies, and Critical Ethnic Studies. You can read much more about the STRC in this newsletter, but the initial idea began as a project between CLR and the Center for Black Diaspora, as we worked to try to create a program to welcome newly admitted students of color to DePaul. I want to extend special thanks to Associate Dean Margaret Storey, who championed our initial idea, brought us all together, helped us articulate our needs and desires, and worked tirelessly to make the grant request successful.

This auspicious beginning this year is matched by some other impressive milestones that we have accomplished, or are accomplishing this year. In May 2021, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the Annual Latinx Graduation Celebration. It seemed appropriate that, at an event where we celebrate the accomplishments of our graduating students, we should hear from a successful, inspiring alumna whose career exemplifies the kind of socially-engaged, justice-oriented work that many of our graduates pursue after their time at DePaul. Maria Pesqueira, a graduate of our Latin American and Latino Studies program, gave a beautiful keynote speech that reminded us to have the courage to pursue our dreams. I hope you will read her profile in this newsletter, since we will be seeing much more of Maria – she is also one of the first alums to agree to serve on our new CLR/LALS External Advisory Board.

Despite delays caused by the pandemic, Diálogo, our peer-reviewed journal, nevertheless published an extraordinary issue this summer edited by Dr. Rocío Ferreira and Dr. Isabel Quintana, which looks in depth at violence in literature and film in Latin America. The issue includes incredible artwork by Martivón Galindo and an extensive creative writing section –even a mini-graphic novel! Diálogo was founded in 1996, which means that this year, we are celebrating its 25th anniversary! We look forward to having special events for Diálogo throughout the year. Meanwhile, please stay tuned for our next issue entitled “Latinx Noir:Investigating Latinx Detective Fiction,” due out later this year.

Please read on to discover much more about our many new initiatives and upcoming events. And, as always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch to let us know how the CLR can serve you!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. Rocío Ferreira co-edited Diálogo Vol. 23, No. 1 with Isabel Quintana from the University of Buenos Aires.

Dr. Heather Montes-Ireland's article, "'Noble Mothers' and their Others: Racialized Women Entrepreneurs and Poverty Finance" was published in the Journal of International Women's Studies special issue on Gendering the Labor Market: Women's Struggles in the Global Labor Force. It can be accessed at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss7/6/ Dr. Carolina Sternberg has been awarded the University Research Council Faculty Leave and a Center for Latino Research Fellowship for AY 21-22 to write a book manuscript, to be titled: Neoliberal Urban Governance in Buenos Aires and Chicago. Spaces, Culture and Discourses, and to be published by Palgrave/Macmillan.

She is also one of the co-leaders and co-investigators of the Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC). Additionally, she's been selected to join the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Task Force for DePaul.

Lastly, she recently started taking Portuguese classes and she truly enjoys them.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. Jesse Mumm recently presented at “Elevating Justice,” on the citywide links between gentrification in places like Humboldt Park and Lincoln Park, and environmental racism on the Southeast Side, on a community panel en español around equity in land use and zoning, hosted by Olga Bautista of the Southeast Environmental Task Force. During the pandemic he helped found a cooperative refuge space for leaders and activists – tentatively called El Refugio Rojo – in the Momence Wetlands just south of Chicago.

Dr. Christine Mladic Janney was awarded the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship with Freedom for Immigrants. She was also a co-curator of “La otra ribera: Photography, Nation and Mestizaje in the early 20th century Arequipa, Peru,” a virtual photography exhibition co-organized by the Universidad Católica San Pablo of Perú and sponsored

by DPAM and the Latin American and Latino Studies Department.

Dr. Ionit Behar just received her PhD in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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LAS HUMANITIES COLLABORATIVE RECEIVES NEARLY $2 MILLION FROM THE MELLON FOUNDATION

By Russelll Dorn From DePaul Newsline Oct 13, 2021 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences a grant for nearly $2 million to support a research collaborative centered on applying the humanities to effecting social change and building new structures of anti-violence and anti-racism. The grant continues DePaul’s partnership with the Foundation, which also awarded a $750,000 grant to the university in 2019 to create the HumanitiesX Collaborative.

The Social Transformation Research Collaborative was designed by the chairs and directors of the Center for Black Disapora, the Center for Latino Research, the African and Black Diaspora Department, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, the Global Asian Studies Minor and the Critical Ethnic Studies Program.

These LAS programs all focus on the historical trajectories, legacies and cultures of people of color. The collaborative's work begins this month and will run through December 2024. In its inaugural year, it will focus its activities around the theme of “influencers for racial and social justice.”

“Faculty and students of color have labored for decades. They have given their precious time because they believe in advocating for racial justice. Oftentimes, they do this work quietly, without compensation, and without accolades,” says Julie Moody-Freeman, associate professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies, affiliated faculty with Critical Ethnic Studies, director of the Center for Black Diaspora, and colead on the collaborative. “This collaborative will address this by providing an infrastructure that will allow students’ and faculty’s intellectual and humanitarian activities to intersect.”

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Funding from the Mellon Foundation will allow the Social Transformation Research Collaborative to: Provide research fellowships in the humanities to students and faculty working in African and Black Diaspora Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Critical Ethnic Studies.

Establish a weeklong credit-bearing summer institute for incoming students — both freshmen and transfers — to learn about the collaborative’s annual theme with faculty, alumni, current students and peers.

Sponsor an annual conference focused on the humanities as a source of justice and healing for communities historically shaped by, and continuously facing, racism, violence and dispossession.

Build a public-facing repository of new scholarship, research and creative work that illuminates cultural resiliency, restoration, anti-violence and healing within communities of color.

Create two postdoctoral fellowships in comparative race and ethnicity studies to attract new scholars to DePaul.

“We want to build structures that will attract students of color to DePaul; build a greater sense of community for students and faculty; create opportunities for students to discover and pursue original research in the humanities; and find ways to give faculty working in these interdisciplinary fields paid leave to do their research,” says Bill Johnson González, associate professor of English, affiliated faculty member with Latin American and Latino Studies, director of the Center for Latino Research, and co-lead on the collaborative. “Our goals are vast, but we are confident that this collaborative will lead to lasting change at DePaul.”

The collaborative will champion the humanities at a time when they face extraordinary pressures in higher education and are sometimes misperceived as “luxuries” or “irrelevant,” says Margaret Storey, associate dean and professor of history, who shepherded the proposal on behalf of the faculty team and the college.

“We know that the opposite is true,” Storey says. “We urgently need humanistic inquiry into social inequity and racial injustice, and the Mellon Foundation’s transformative generosity allows us to invest in the humanities, our faculty and students at a critical time in higher education.”

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DIÁLOGO Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal is a refereed journal published by the Center for Latino Research, with production and subscriptions handled by the University of Texas Press. In 2018 the journal received the CELJ Phoenix Award for transformation and revitalization over a three year period.

Diálogo 23.2, Fall 2020 Cartografías de violencia en discursividades heterogéneas contemporáneas HIGHLIGHTS: ROCIO FERREIRA on "Breaking the Silence: Telling Herstories on the Peruvian Post-Internal Armed Conflict"; ISABEL QUINTANA on "El tiempo de la memoria"; Art by MARTIVON GALINDO; Creative Writing by CECILIA PODESTA and many others; Comic booklet by JESUS COSSIO. Special Guest Editors: Rocío Ferreira (DePaul), and Isabel Quintana (University of Buenos Aires)

Diálogo 24.1, Spring 2021 Latinx Noir: Investigating Latinx Detective Fiction HIGHLIGHTS: MICHAEL CUCHER on "The Utopian Function of Queer Chutzpah"; JOSE NAVARRO on "Zoot Suit Noir"; Interviews with MARCOS MCPEEK VILLATORO and AYA DE LEON; Art by SALOMON HUERTA and photography by DAVID BACON; Creative Writing by ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA Special Guest Editors: Michael Cucher (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras); William Arcé (California State University, Fresno); and José Navarro (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

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LATINX GRADUATION 2021 In celebration of the class of 2021 The Center for Latino Research hosted the annual LatinX Graduation for 2021! We had the honor of having DPU Alumna and President of the Healthy Communities Foundation, Maria Pesqueira, speak at the event, along with two students who won the competition for student speakers with the speeches they submitted. Robbie Merkel gave the student speech in English and Laiza Garcia delivered her speech in Spanish.

Maria Pesqueira

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Maria Pesqueira LEADER| SPEAKER

We were honored to have Maria Pesqueira, a graduate of DePaul's Latin American and Latino Studies program and current President of the Healthy Communities Foundation, serve as the 2021 Latinx Graduation speaker.

Maria has over two decades of leadership experience in the human services area, bringing an expert perspective to strategic planning and management, program development, communications, fundraising and public health. She also is a sought-after speaker, addressing national and local audiences on issues ranging from private/nonprofit partnerships to women’s issues, health disparities, and the future of philanthropy.

Her awards and recognitions include being named a Chicago Community Trust Fellow, 1 of 50 Women of Influence by Chicago Business Journal, the Excellence in Community Service award by MALDEF, & the Making a Difference Award

by Chicago Women in Philanthropy. She was selected for the AJC Project Israel Interchange for National Latino Opinion and Policy Leaders, and named one of “Forty under Forty” by Crain’s Chicago Business.

Maria is the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants and a graduate of Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Program; St. Thomas University, MiniMBA in Nonprofit Management; and DePaul University, B.A. Latin American Studies. She, along with her husband and son, reside in the HCF region, a few blocks from where she grew up.

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FACULTY FELLOWSHIP Eligibility: The CLR Faculty Fellowship is open to all full-time, tenure track faculty in any discipline, and is supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The fellowship grants recipients a onequarter teaching release (2 classes) for research and writing. In addition, the CLR provides up to 100 hours of student research assistant support. Within one academic year following the fellowship period, recipients are asked to submit a final outcome or publication, and to do a short public presentation of their work.

For more information, please visit go.depaul.edu/clr

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Fellow Profile

Q: What has it been like to start your career at DePaul during the pandemic?

A: Well, I don’t know what it would have been otherwise! But overall, it has been great. All my courses went well last year, even though I had never taught online before, and I was also able to get a lot of writing done and even put out some publications. The one thing that obviously has not been ideal is the sense of community and belonging that you get from being on campus surrounded by students and colleagues.

That was largely missing last year, and now I am barely beginning to get to know people on a one-on-one basis. That part I don’t think will be fully there until we overcome the crisis mode of the pandemic at the societal level, which I hope is soon!

Q: I was told that you are a Chicago native. What does it feel like to come back "home" to the city and teach?

What influenced you to teach here, in Chicago?

Rafael Vizcaíno, Ph.D PHILOSOPHY | COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

By Amanda Matthews

A: I always say Chicago is my second home – first being Mexico, of course. I came to the area for high school and then did my undergraduate at Northwestern, so I associate Chicago with my most important years of personal and intellectual growth. Being back means a lot, because back then I used to dream of being a scholar and professor, and now I am living that dream.

Q: What are you currently working on in terms of research projects?

A: I am revising my first book project, which brings debates on epistemic decolonization in the Americas to bear on theories of secularization and postsecularity as mainly developed by European philosophers. That’s what is consuming most of my bandwidth at the time. I am also working on several related side projects, such as essays on decolonizing political theology, Caribbean philosophy, and critical theory, some of which might be the foundation for a future project.

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Q: Some commentators have pointed out how difficult it is to be a person of color working in philosophy. What kinds of contributions are scholars of color making to transform contemporary philosophy?

A: This is a huge question that I am unable to answer with due diligence here. The short answer is that there are several initiatives taking place at many levels, from the international to those at the departmental levels, which at least seems to indicate that the issue is now being taken with more seriousness than in the past. My hope is that the field continues to open itself up to marginalized voices, to the point that it reflects the true diversity of the world, and not just a highly selective narrative of Western European thought.

Q: I saw that you recently won the American Philosophical Association's 2020 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought. Do you have any advice you'd like to give to those persons of color currently in the field of Philosophy, or thinking about pursuing it?

A: Make sure you know why you are interested in philosophy. Have clear commitments and be able to articulate the value of your work, especially in regards to the broader field and global societal problems.

Also, make sure you have a community to support you. Without the labor of intergenerational mentoring, none of us would be here to begin with.

Q: Is there anything interesting you're currently reading?

A: I have started to read a book by the Mexican-American philosopher Carlos Alberto Sanchez called A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy After Narco-Culture. I am presenting a conference paper on this book at the American Philosophical Association Central Division annual meeting next year (in Chicago, actually).

Since I have been meaning to bridge my philosophical work to my lived experience in Mexico, I figured this might be a good start.

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UPCOMING EVENTS: FALL 2021

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 11:00AM-1:00PM THE DOLORES HUERTA EVENT WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. MARISOL MORALES

Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 4:15-7:30PM WHEN WE MAKE IT: A CONVERSATION AND WRITING WORKSHOP WITH AUTHOR ELISABET VELASQUEZ Sponsored by CLR and LALS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 7:00-8:00PM THE ART OF INDIGENOUS INCULTURATION: A DISCUSSION WITH GUEST ANTONIO D. SISON Sponsored by CRCC, CWCIT, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Department of Catholic Studies

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 6:00-9:OOPM CULTURE AS HEALING: A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR LUIS RODRÍGUEZ Sponsored by PAX, CLR, and CRCC

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FALL 2021 EVENTS LATINO ACTIVISM AND ELECTORAL POLITICS: LESSONS FOR FUTURE LEADERS IN CHICAGOLAND AND BEYOND CLR | OCTOBER 6, 2021

Political Science professor Joe R. Tafoya sat down with guest speaker Ismael Cuevas to discuss Latinx/Latine representation, mobilization strategies, and political power.

Video footage of the event can be found here From left to right: guest speaker Ismael Cuevas and Dr. Joe R. Tafoya

RACIAL INNOCENCE: UNMASKING LATINO ANTI-BLACK BIAS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY WITH DR. TANYA KATERI HERNANDEZ THE WOMEN'S CENTER, CLR, CBD, ABD, WGS. AND LALS | OCTOBER 13, 2021

Dr. Hernández brings to light stories of Latino anti-Black racism and how they matter for the societal pursuit of equality. Why? Because, she argues, Latinos can be racists.

By excavating the otherwise silenced voices of Afro-Latino and African American victims of Latino anti-Blackness, she disrupts the “Latino racial innocence” that veils Latino complicity in U.S. racism. In turn, she challenges the public ignorance about Latino anti-Blackness that undermines our abilities to fully address the interwoven complexities of U.S. racism.

Video footage of her talk will be available soon.

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UPCOMING EVENTS: SAVE THE DATE!

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PAST EVENTS: SUMMER AND FALL 2020 AUGUST 8, 2020 DIVERSITY CONNECTIONS

The Center for Latino Research, the Center for Black Diaspora, and the Office of Admissions held the first-ever Diversity Connections, an event aimed at introducing incoming students of color to LAS faculty, students, alumni, and on campus resources to foster a sense of community among students of color prior to the first day of classes.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 ONCE I WAS YOU: A BOOK DISCUSSION WITH MARIA HINOJOSA

Award-winning journalist and former Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair María Hinojosa made sure to include DePaul in her book tour for Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America. Our current Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair, Erika L. Sánchez, interviewed María and discussed some of the topics in the book, including immigration, mental health, and impostor syndrome.

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PAST EVENTS: FALL 2020 OCTOBER 1, 2020 GETTING OUT THE VOTE Political scientist Melissa Michelson and LULAC Iowa State Director Nick Salazar sat down with LALS affiliated faculty and CLR board member Dr. Joe R. Tafoya to talk about the importance of Latino voting, best practices on getting Latinxs out to vote, and opportunities in the Midwest. Getting Out the Vote was the first part of "The Latinx Vote in 2020," a twopart event hosted by the CLR and cosponsored by the Office of Global Engagement, the Center for Black Diaspora, the Departments of Political Science, Latin American and Latino Studies, African and Black Diaspora Studies, and History, and the Critical Ethnic Studies Program at DePaul.

You can watch the recording of the event here.

OCTOBER 7, 2020 ANNUAL DOLORES HUERTA BREAKFAST

The Dolores Huerta breakfast, hosted every year by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, was held in a virtual format on October 7, 2020. Guests were provided a link with access to the PBS documentary Dolores ahead of the event. We had the honor of having Dolores Huerta herself be our keynote speaker.

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PAST EVENTS: FALL 2020 OCTOBER 8, 2020 UNFORGETTING: A BOOK PRESENTATION WITH ROBERTO LOVATO

Dr. Ester Trujillo from the LALS Department interviewed journalist and activist Roberto Lovato about his new book, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. The memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration .

You can watch the recording of this event here.

OCTOBER 14, 2020 HISTORY AND VOTING RIGHTS For part two of our symposium on The Latinx Vote in 2020, Dr. Joe R. Tafoya was in conversation with historian Benjamin Francis-Fallon and political scientist Bernard L. Fraga discussing the possiblity of a Latino voting bloc, the national diversity among Latinxs, and ways of overcoming the barriers that have historically blocked Latinx, Black, and Asian American communities from voting. You can watch the video recording of the event here.

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PAST EVENTS: FALL 2020 OCTOBER 27, 2020 A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR JAQUIRA DÍAZ Erika L. Sánchez interviewed author Jaquira Díaz about her new memoir, Ordinary Girls, in which she talks about her upbringing in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach and dealing with issues related to identity, mental health, sexual assault, and violence. This event was hosted by the Department of LALS and the LGBTQ Studies Program, and cosponsored by the Departments of African and Black Diaspora Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, English, the Center for Black Diaspora and the Center for Latino Research, the MFA/MA in Writing and Publishing Program, the Latinx Cultural Center, and Women's Center, and Slag Glass City Journal. You can watch the recording of the event here.

NOVEMBER 16, 2020 VOICE AND BELONGING

We closed out 2020 with an event to honor the work of José Ángel Navejas and the impact of his memoir, Illegal, in a panel discussion with the author himself and Professors Juan Mora-Torres (DePaul), Patrisia Macías (UIC), and Raúl Dorantes (NEIU).

Navejas received the first ever Center for Latino Research Public Intellectual Award.

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PAST EVENTS: SPRING 2021 MAY 5. 2021 JANEL PINEDA POETRY READING Born in Los Angeles, Janel Pineda is a Salvadoran poet and educator. A first-generation college graduate, she earned a BA in English from Dickinson College, where she was a Posse Scholar. Pineda has performed her poetry internationally in both English and Spanish, and been published in LitHub, PANK, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the U.S., among others.

As a Marshall Scholar, Janel holds an MA in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths, University of London and she is currently pursuing an MPhil in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her debut poetry chapbook, Lineage of Rain, was published from Haymarket Books in February 2021.

During her virtual visit to DePaul, Janel read from her published works, discussed her life as a writer, and answered questions from students and faculty.

APRIL 27, 2021 LIVING UNDOCUMENTED: OVERCOMING MARGINIALTY AND LEGAL EXCLUSION Our very own, Claudia Peralta, returned to her alma mater to give a presentation! Claudia graduated from DePaul in 2019 with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Latin American and Latino Studies.

She is currently a program coordinator for the New Americans Initiative (NAI) and Immigrant Family Resource Program (IFRP) with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR).

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PAST EVENTS: SPRING 2021 MAY 24TH - 25TH . 2021 FILM SCREENING: THE INFILTRATORS The CLR hosted a virtual screening of The Infiltrators at DePaul on May 24th - 25th. The film shows the true story of two young immigrants who get purposefully arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center. The film follows Marco and Viri, members of a group of radical Dreamers, who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention.

JUNE 5, 2021 25TH ANNUAL LATINX GRADUATION

On June 5, 2021 The Center for Latino Research hosted the annual Latinx Graduation, an event celebrating graduating students from across the university's various colleges and degree programs. This event receives support and sponsorship from the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.

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GRADUATE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT AND EDITOR OF EL CENTRO:

Amanda Matthews

I recently moved to Chicago from New York City, where I studied English (Creative Writing and Journalism) at the City College of New York, where I received my Bachelor's degree. I'm also an alumna of Roehampton University in London, United Kingdom, where I studied literature and writing abroad for a semester.

In my free time I like to take photographs, go on adventures and try food from different restaurants; I’m a huge lover of food. I’m also a huge advocate for travel and believe that you should take every opportunity to travel whenever it arises.

Hi! My name is Amanda Matthews and I am the editor for our newsletter, El Centro, and the Graduate Editorial Assistant for the Center for Latino Research.

I’m currently a student in the Writing and Publishing MA program at DePaul University, with an interest in Latino research as well as photography, travel, and media.

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