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Gilson Mateus

History M.A.

“Gilson Mateus is M.A. in History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He participated in the Paleography and Digital Humanities training program at the University of

Juan Cartagena

Civil Rights Attorney, Professor, Cultural Activist

Juan Cartagena, is a civil rights attorney, a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, and a writer that addresses the struggle and importance of civil rights and nondiscriminatory treatment

Maria Josefa Canino Arroyo

María Josefa Canino Arroyo is recognized as a distinguished academic and community leader whose career spans over five decades. Her extensive work centers on public administration, Latino and Puerto Rican

Luis Contreras

LSRI Program Manager and Doctoral Student

Luis Contreras is a Ph.D. student in Communication, Information, and Media at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information. He currently serves as the Program Manager for the Latino Studies

Mellie Torres

Mellie Torres, Ph.D.

Mellie Torres, Ph.D., expert in Latinx education and racial equity

Dr. Mellie Torres (she, her, ella) is a Puerto Rican woman from “Brick City” (Newark, NJ). She is a publicly engaged scholar-practitioner whose work is at the nexus of research

Carmen Molina Tamacas

Journalist

Portrait of Carmen Molina Tamacas, Salvadoran journalist and writer.

Carmen Molina Tamacas is a Salvadoran-born journalist and anthropologist. She studied at Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador (UTEC) and has worked for several newspapers and online publications. After immigrating to

Peter Guarnaccia

Emeritus Professor

Peter Guarnaccia (Ph. D., Connecticut, 1984) is an Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University. His research interests include cross-cultural patterns of psychiatric disorders, cultural competence in mental health organizations, and processes

Sol Escobar

Lecturer

Sol Cristina Escobar is a lecturer in the Global Studies Program and in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Camden. A political sociologist with a regional

Benjamin Lapidus

Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and The Graduate Center

Benjamin Lapidus is a Grammy-nominated musician who has performed and recorded throughout the world as a bandleader and supporting musician playing guitar, Cuban tres, Puerto Rican cuatro, touchstyle/tapping instruments (Warr guitar

Lilia Fernandez

Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois Chicago

Lilia Fernández is Professor in the Department of History at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is a historian of the twentieth-century U.S. whose work focuses on Latinos, urban inequality,