Event Description
This webinar features three scholars whose work advances understanding of Latin American and Afro-Latinx communities through social policy, culture, and education. In recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the event explores racial and gender justice, ethnoracial legislation, climate ethnography, and Afro-Indigenous knowledge systems. Presenters offer critical insights into how law, environment, heritage, and pedagogy shape the lived experiences of Hispanic and Afro-Latinx communities.
Speakers
Mariela Noles Cotito is a professor at Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru, specializing in Discrimination and Public Policy.
Janaina Campos Lobos is a professor at the Institue of Humanities at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB).
Nodia C. Mena is a Spanish Lectuerer at Guilford College. Interests lie at the intersection of race and ethnicity, languages, cultures, Afro-Indigenous immigrant heritage reclamation, ancestral knowledge system within education, and community-making as/within education.
Co-sponsorship
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UC Berkeley Social Sciences Division and the UC Berkeley Library.