Latine Stories

In this episode, Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and advocate who has lived in New York for over twenty years, talks to us, during his visit to Ohio State, about his performance at the Wexner Arts center titled, This Bridge Called My Ass. This performance piece bends tropes of Latinidad to identify new relationships to content and form.

Rodolfo Vazquez, chairman of the Ohio Hispanic Fine Arts Association and flute player, talks to us about his journey as an artist and to Ohio. For this episode, Rodolfo gifted us with two songs, Paloma and La cucaracha, as part of our conversation. Enjoy!

En este episodio, Kivin Bauzó, nos habla de su carrera como actor y su debut como director de escena en la nueva producción de LatinUS Theater, Divorciadas, Evangélicas y Vegetarianas.

In this episode, founders of Femergy, Christina Vera and Maylin Sambois, talk to us about their organization and the impact they have witnessed in the lives of the women they serve.

In this episode, Dr. Guisela Latorre, professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality studies at the Ohio State University, talks to us about Artivism in places like Chile and within black and brown youth in the U.S. She is the author of Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (2019) and Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (2008). In addition, she was co-curator and co-author of the exhibition/book ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege (2017). She is currently working on an anthology on the arts collective Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.

In this episode, Lourdes Barrosa de Padilla, Lilian Morales and Michele Cantu, talk to us about Latina Mentoring Academy, a program created to support the leadership development of Latinas in Central Ohio.

Calfuqueo Aliste vive y trabaja en Santiago de Chile, es Licenciado y Magister en Artes Visuales de la Universidad de Chile. Es parte del colectivo mapuche feminista Rangiñtulewfü. De origen Mapuche, su obra recurre a su herencia cultural como un punto de partida para proponer una reflexión crítica sobre el estatus social, cultural y político del sujeto Mapuche al interior de la sociedad chilena actual y Latinoamérica. Calfuqueo Aliste es ganador del Premio de la Municipalidad de Santiago en 2017 y el Premio de la Fundación FAVA en 2018.

En este episodio, Inés Valdez es profesora de ciencias políticas en la universidad de Ohio State y directora del programa Latino studies, nos habla de su libro Transnational Cosmopolitanism. Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft que fue publicado por Cambridge University Press en el 2019. Tambien charlamos sobre la direccion del programa de Latina/o/x studies en Ohio State.

Sophia Enriquez talks to us about her work documenting the musical migration history of her family from the U.S.-Mexico border, to the Mississippi Delta, to Southern Ohio. Sophia is a practitioner of Appalachian and Mexican folk music (including bluegrass, mariachi, and canción ranchera) and performs in Columbus, Ohio as part of the Good Time Girls, a female folk trio that writes original music inspired by intersectional experiences

In this episode, Catalina Martinez, a physical scientist and the Regional Program Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA OER) in Rhode Island, talks to us about her work with ocean exploration, including her time with the famous Alvin submersible. We also discuss her work in diversity and inclusion in STEM.