Las negritas y las islitas: Autonomy in times of tragedy and trauma

Bell FerrerThe Spanish Department invites you to a conversation with Dorothy Bell-Ferrer, an Afroantillana (Boricua and Dominicana) activist, activist, and student. Dorothy is a master student at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico currently studying literature in the Hispanic Studies department in the College of Humanities.

She has worked directly with Latino communities, both in Puerto Rico and in the US as a community organizer for National Boricua Human Rights Network in Cleveland, and has written about race, Latino identities, feminism, and anti-racism.

Tuesday, October 24. 4:15pm to 5:30pm | Hollander 241

* Sponsored by Romance Languages and Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures & Cultures