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DESCRIPTION:The Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas invites you to join us 
 as we celebrate International Women's Day with keynote speakers Prof. 
 Michelle Tellez and Prof. Esther Hernández-Medina. Together, they will 
 help the audience explore the critical themes of resistance, survival, 
 intersectionality, and reproductive justice in the Americas. \n\nProf. 
 Tellez's lecture is titled "Fronteriza Imaginaries: Women's Leadership in 
 the Borderlands" and Prof. Hernández-Medina's lecture is titled “Take 
 your Rosaries out of Our Ovaries:” the Fight for Women's Right to Choose 
 in the Dominican Republic.\n\n\nMerrill Cultural Center 
 Schedule:\n\n1:30p.m.-3:00p.m. ~ Dr. Hernandez-Medina, Pomona 
 College\n\nDiscussant: Michelle Gomez Parra, PhD candidate in Sociology 
 with emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies\n\n3:00p.m.-3:20p.m. ~ 
 Break with light snacks\n\n3:20p.m.-4:50p.m. ~ Dr. Michelle Tellez, 
 University of Arizona\n\nDiscussant: Roxanna Villalobos, PhD candidate in 
 Sociology with emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies\n\n\nAbout 
 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michelle Téllez\n\nProf. Michelle Téllez is an 
 Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the 
 University of Arizona. Her public and academic scholarship focuses on 
 transnational community formations, mothering, and gendered migration along 
 the U.S./Mexico borderlands. Her work has been published in journals such 
 as: Gender & Society, Feminist Formations, and Aztlán and featured online 
 in Truth Out, The Feminist Wire, and Latino Rebels. She has a long history 
 in grassroots organizing projects, digital media, and community-based arts 
 and performance. She co-edited The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque 
 Sin Madres No Hay Revolución, published in March of 2019 and is the author 
 of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces 
 of Neoliberal Neglect published in September 2021. In 2022, she her Co-PIs 
 were awarded two Andrew W. Mellon-Foundation funded Crossing Latinidades 
 Humanities Research Initiative Grants for new work on Afro-Chicanx 
 communities and Mexicana/Chicana activists in the borderlands. You can find 
 out more about her work at: www.michelletellez.com.\n\n\nAbout Keynote 
 Speaker: Prof. Esther Hernández-Medina\n\nDr. Esther Hernández-Medina is 
 a feminist scholar, public policy expert and activist from the Dominican 
 Republic, with a particular interest in how historically marginalized 
 groups such as women, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities are able to 
 change and influence public policy in their favor. She has done research on 
 this topic in Mexico, Brazil, and her own country by looking at citizen 
 participation in urban policies in São Paulo and Mexico City, the history 
 of and recent achievements by the Dominican feminist movement, and the 
 participatory budgeting model in the Dominican Republic and São Paulo. She 
 is currently an Assistant Professor at Pomona College at the Latin American 
 Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies Programs. Her academic work has 
 been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 
 Caribbean Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Berkeley Journal of 
 Sociology, and Estudios Sociales. As an activist, she is the co-founder of 
 Tertulia Feminista Magaly Pineda, along with Yildalina Tatem Brache in the 
 Dominican Republic. Named after the most important contemporary feminist 
 leader in the country and one of the most renown ones in Latin America and 
 the Caribbean, the Tertulia aims to provide a safe space for women of all 
 ages, backgrounds, and sexual orientations to debate and learn about both 
 historical and contemporary issues from a feminist perspective.\n\n\nLight 
 refreshments will be served outdoors in the courtyard of the Merrill 
 Cultural Center\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/21/18854460.php
SUMMARY:International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz\n\nDriving and Parking 
 Directions:\nhttps://maps.ucsc.edu/detailed-directions/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/21/18854460.php
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