Patricia Hernández, a sociologist specializing in education and gender will discuss popular education in Zapatista indigenous communities.  She  has worked for several years with indigenous communities to develop their primary and secondary schools, following a model of "autonomous education."  She  is also collaborating with a community organization in the outskirts of Mexico City to build an autonomous school that would incorporate indigenous communities' demands for land, food, peace, justice and democracy into classes on history, language and mathematics.

This event is co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Institute of Politics, and Fuerza Latina.