ReVista Launch: Indigenous Voices

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We celebrate the Spring/Summer issue of ReVista on Indigenous Voices with a panel moderated by Américo Mendoza-Mori, followed by a lively discussion with authors and a meal.

Speakers: Selene Manga is a Peruvian doctor who is a Takemi Fellow in International Health Harvard School of Public Health; Sharoll Fernandez Siñani, Director of the Zera Bolivia Educational Foundation, is a Harvard Graduate School of Education Ed.M candidate in the Education Policy and Analysis program; Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato is a Xicana MDiv candidate at Harvard Divinity School and a co-founder of the student organization COATL; Roberto Zariquiey, 2022-23 Radcliffe Fellow, is a full professor of linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
Moderated by: Américo Mendoza-Mori researches and teaches on U.S. Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous studies at Harvard University’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR)

Contributing Authors:

Giovanni Batz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California Santa Barbara.

Carlos Flores Quispe, from a family of skilled Bolivian weavers, is a first-year doctoral student in Hispanic Linguistics at UMass Amherst.

Emil Keme, 2022-23 Radcliffe Fellow, Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at Emory University.

Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez, a Nicaraguan-American public archaeologist affiliated with Cleveland State University.

Mathias Becerra Sanchez is an incoming freshman at Stanford University interested in Symbolic Systems, Linguistics, and Iberian and Latin American Cultures.

Marcos Colón is a professor in the Public Health program of Florida State University.

Erik Jennings is a doctor at Sesai (Secretaria Especial de Saúde Indígena – Special Secretary for Indigenous Health).

Ampam Karakras has been a promoter and organizer of the Indigenous nationalities of Ecuador through the representation of the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers – FICSH; co-founder and representative of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon - CONFENIAE.

Eliel Sanchez-Acevedo is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) Candidate at Harvard Law School and Co-coordinator of the Afro-Mexico Project at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.

Felipe H. Lopez, a Zapotec writer, poet and educator, teaches in the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs at Seton Hall University.

Patricia Ames, DRCLAS 2023 incoming Visiting Scholar, is a full professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Alejandro Lozano, who holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is a political scientist from Mexico.

Vanessa Daza Castillo, from Colombia's Guajira, is an S.J.D. student at Harvard Law School.

Nicolò Filippo Rosso is a photographer based in Colombia.

Elisa Loncon, a Mapuche woman, linguist and a professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, was the president of Chile's recent Constitutional Convention.