Voices & Vision: A Hispanic American Heritage Month Webinar at UC Berkeley Library

Mariela Noles Cotito, Janaina Campos Lobos, and Nodia C. Mena

September 16, 2025

Hispanic American Heritage Month Celebration, 2025

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.