Dr. Michelle RowleyAssociate Professor to the Women’s Studies Department at the University of MarylandDr. Michelle Rowley is an Associate Professor to the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Maryland. Before joining the department in 2006 she served in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Cincinnati (2004-2006). She completed her Ph.D. as a Fulbright Scholar at Clark University, Worcester MA (2003). She presently serves on the editorial collective for Feminist Studies.
Her research interests address issues of gender and development, the politics of welfare, as well as state responses to questions of Caribbean women’s reproductive health and well being and rights for sexual minorities. Her publications include “When the Post-Colonial State Bureaucratizes Gender: Charting Trinidadian Women’s Centrality Within The Margins,” “Where the Streets Have No Name: Getting Development Out of the (RED).” “Rethinking Interdisciplinarity: Meditations on the Sacred Possibilities of an Erotic Feminist Pedagogy,” and “Whose Time Is It?: Gender and Humanism in Contemporary Caribbean Feminist Advocacy.” Her book is entitled Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition (Routledge, 2011). |
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Ana Patricia RodriguezAssociate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and U.S. Latino StudiesAna Patricia Rodríguez is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches courses in Latin American, Central American, and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Central American and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures; Central American cultural production in the U.S.; transnational migration and cultural production; diaspora studies; violence and postwar/trauma studies; gender studies; U.S. Latina/o popular culture; community-based research; and Latina/o education (K-16). Professor Rodríguez has published numerous articles on the cultural production of Latinas/os in the United States and Central Americans in the isthmus and in the wider Central American diaspora. Her books include De la hamaca al trono y al más allá: Lecturas críticas de la obra de Manlio Argueta (with Linda J. Craft and Astvaldur Astvaldsson; San Salvador: Universidad Tecnológica, 2013) and Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures (University of Texas Press, 2009).
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Eric SanchezPR Consultant and Activist in DCErick Sanchez is a public relations consultant and activist from Washington, DC, working in democratic politics for over 10 years. Sanchez, who was recently called "The Guy Behind Some of DC's Most Viral Campaigns" by Washingtonian, has made local and national headlines over the past few years for using digital tools to organize local actions. His most notable accomplishments include successfully petitioning Chef Jose Andres to abandon his plans for a restaurant inside of the Trump Hotel in Washington, gathering supporters outside of the Naval Observatory to celebrate the career of Vice President Joe Biden in the aftermath of the 2016 election, and driving patrons to Comet Ping Pong Pizza after the community was shocked by an active shooter in the restaurant investigating a fake news conspiracy. Sanchez has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Newsweek, ABC News, NBC News, USA Today, and made a late night appearance for an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2014. He is currently working with local organizations on the Immigrants and Workers March in Washington, taking place on May Day. |