Latine Stories

En este episodio, Andrés Ramírez, rapero y director, nos habla sobre el documental situado en Bolivia, donde se explora la muerte de su amigo, Ukamau y Ké (Abraham Bojórquez). Bojórquez era un activista y pionero del hip hop en Aymara, formando una parte importante del ámbito local e internacional del movimiento del hip hop.

En este episodio, estudiantes del departamento de español y portugués hablan sobre el Creative Writing Group. En esta conversación les acompaña la profesora Isis Barra Costa.

Morales Crispín is an educator who is currently working in the Franklin County Sheriff’s office. He is also actively involved with the Latina/o community in many areas, including starting the Latino night fair, which is an outreach event that connects our familias Latinas with resources.

Carlos Gabriel Kelly Gonzalez first book, Wounds Fragments Derelict, takes the fluidity of being Mexican and American, weaving it together with love and loss to produce a novella of poetry. Kelly tells a loosely chronological love story through poetry, mixing in the impact of family, loss, and death. It is within these pages Kelly found a sense of healing, that through exploring the power of loss, of love, and of life, he learned to be hopeful once more, to not be afraid of what time and new love could bring.

Dr. Juan Guardia is a scholar-practitioner and has been in the field of student affairs for over 19 years in various administrative roles. In this episode, he shares his experience as a first-gen student and his from "community college to Ph.D." story.

Milly Valverde joins us in this episode to talk about her work in language access, and diversity and inclusion, at The Ohio State University Health System.

Milly was named Language Access Champion 2013 by the National Council on Interpreting in Healthcare.

María Camila Fredericks entrevista a su madre sobre su experiencia como inmigrante ecuatoriana y su lucha por mejorar su vida y apoyar a su familia.

Dra. Loida Martell joins us in this episode. Her research on Taíno religious beliefs led to the publication of “My GPS Doesn’t Work in Puerto Rico,” on evangélica spirituality. She co-edited Teología en Conjunto: A Collaborative Hispanic Protestant Theology (1997), and more recently co-authored the well-received Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins (2013). She currently serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs and dean at Lexington Theological seminary

En este episodio, la folclorista, investigadora, y artesana Leticia Vasquez-Smith nos habla de su trabajo como artista, la cartonería y celebración del día de los muertos.

En este episodio, la escritora y editora Lina Ximena Aguirre, nos habla de su editorial, Libros orca. Esta editorial tiene como misión apoyar y amplificar las voces de mujeres escritoras en los Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica.