New Speaker Alert! Welcome Lorgia García Peña, Award-winning Latinx Scholar 📚
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We are pleased to welcome another edition to our speaker roster: Dr. Lorgia García Peña.
Lorgia is an award-winning scholar in American Studies and specializes in the intersections of race, colonialism, and migration with a focus on Afro-Latinx lives and experiences. She currently serves as a professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and as co-editor of the University of Texas Press series, Latinx, the Future is Now. She will be transitioning to Princeton University for Fall 2023 to teach in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies.
Her work emphasizes social justice, women of color, feminism, and Afro-Latinx episteme. She has a strong commitment to undocumented communities and first-generation students of color. She is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, a school that provides college instruction to undocumented students, and the co-director of Archives of Justice, a transnational digital archive project that centers the life of people who identify as Black, queer and migrant.
She is the author of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Haymarket, 2022), in which Angela Y. Davis calls it “a life-saving and life-affirming text.” Cornel West adds, “Lorgia García Peña is one of the few courageous and brilliant intellectuals grounded in rigorous and visionary grassroots education.” She is also the author of Translating Blackness: Migrations of Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022) and The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction (Duke University Press, 2016).
The 2022 recipient of the Angela Y. Davis Prize with the American Studies Association, she has been called “a scholar-activist able and willing to confront the challenges of our moment.” With much of her work and activism rooted in academic settings, Lorgia invites broader audiences to consider what liberatory practices they can engage in to build radical communities that combat the world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures, especially for communities of color and women. She has been featured in The New York Times, Harpers BAZAAR, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.
Some of her most popular talks include:
➡️ Community as Rebellion
➡️ Teaching in/For Freedom
➡️ Translating Blackness
➡️ Black Latinidad: Present-day Oppression
Join us in welcoming Lorgia to the Outspoken Speaker family! Be sure to check out her speaker page to learn more about her talks and to book her for your next event.
Dr. García Peña’s Books:
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