Latine Stories

In this episode, Dr. Ana Luz Porzecanski, Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), talks to us about her career trajectory and the collaboration between AMNH and Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, to put together the bilingual exhibit called ¡Cuba!

In this episode, Thelma Velez, a first-generation, Latina/x woman with roots in Bronx, New York and Miami, Florida, talks to us about her research on Climate and Food Justice, and her experience as a Latina in higher education.

Listen to a conversation with S.C.O.P.E., a group of undergraduate students committed to sharing their journeys to support DACA students across Ohio.

En este episodio, Claudia Yvette De León, presidenta de La Mega Media, uno de los medios de comunicación más grandes de los EEUU, con estaciones de radio, nos habla sobre su empresa y el servicio que ofrecen a la audiencia latina de Ohio.

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,...

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 a...

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 in...

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.

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,...

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...

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.

In this episode, we talk about quinceañeras, a cultural celebration that brings together family and community.