Class Description
Come celebrate the release of a groundbreaking creative nonfiction anthology, Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education. Join editor Jennifer De Leon and contributors Iris Gomez and Daisy Hernández as they share their narratives and provide crucial insight into the complex intersection of race, class, and identity in higher education, dispelling myths and showcasing the diversity of one community’s experiences. The event will include a Q & A with the authors as well as a discussion of how these authors shaped their experiences into personal essays.
Guest Speakers:
Iris Gomez is an award-winning writer and nationally respected immigration rights attorney and law school lecturer. She is the author of the novel Try to Remember (Grand Central, 2010), which garnered praise from prominent national magazines such as O, The Oprah Magazine and Latina, among others, and was listed by the Association of American Publishers among its Recommended Latino Books of 2010, in addition to appearing on The Boston Globebestseller list and winning a 2011 International Latino Book Award in the popular fiction category. She is also the author of two books of poetry, Housicwhissick Blue (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003) and When Comets Rained(CustomWords, 2004) and her work has been published in dozens of literary magazines as well as professional and mainstream periodicals. She won the 2001 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, second prize in poetry, from the University of California at Irvine and received the Las Primeras Award for Latina trailblazers from the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys, among other literary and professional awards. She is featured in a forthcoming anthology, Latina Authors and Their Muses, edited by Mayra Calvani (Twilight Times Books, 2014) and is currently at work on another novel, Atlántica.
Daisy Hernández's memoir
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir is forthcoming with Beacon Press. She's the coeditor of
Colonize This! Young Women on Today’s Feminism and former editor of
ColorLines, a newsmagazine on race and politics. To read more of her writing, go to
www.daisyhernandez.com.
Scholarships
Format/Location
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!
Zoom Participation:
Students are not required to turn their camera on, but are encouraged to participate any way they feel comfortable through functions such as the live chat, emoji reactions, and unmuting the microphone. Learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
We ask that instructors enable closed captioning and send a transcript of the session after class. You can also enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting. If your instructor forgets to send the transcript, just send ’em an email!
