Selected Readings
2011
2009
2004
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR
Poets for Gaza, Oakland, CA
Made in Califas Intergenerational Puerto Rican Poetry and Music, Berkeley, CA
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
In Other Words Bookstore, Portland, OR
CSU San Diego, San Diego, CA
CSU Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Red Dog Café, St. Paul, MN
CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA
UC Davis, Davis, CA
2002-03
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Brecht Forum, New York City, NY
St Catherine's College, St Paul, MN
Amazon Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN
City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
2000-01
Writing & Healing Series, St Paul Public Library, St. Paul, MN
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Latino Authors Festival, St Paul Public Library, St. Paul, MN
Latina Writer's Conference, San Antonio, TX
1998-99
University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
The Ark, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1997
California State University at Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1995-96
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Portland State University, Portland, OR
1994
Adrian College, Adrian, MI
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Colgate College, Hamilton, NY
Hunter College, New York, NY
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Selected Speaking Engagements
2010
2007
2004
UC Berkeley, Berkeley. Keynote, 25th Anniversary Women of Color Conference
Jewish Voice for Peace National Conference, Oakland
CSU San Diego, San Diego, “Healing and Story.”
CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, "Why We Need History"
CSU San Marcos, Oral History and Community Organizing
CSU Humboldt, Arcata, Latino Heritage Commemoration
Stetson University, DeLand, FL History Poetry and Prophecy
University of Minnesota, US Latina History
2003
Portland State University, Portland, Feminist Conference. Keynote: "Why Feminists Need History"
Workshop: "Telling to Live: Bearing Witness to History".
First Congregational Church of Oakland, Oakland, "Memory and Hope"
2002
Puerto Rican Studies Association, U of Illinois, Chicago "Shaken by the Spirit: California Puerto Rican
Pentecostals"
2001
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA "Take Back the Night"
2000
DePaul University, Illinois. Latino Jewish Series. "Puerto Ricans and Jews"
1999
University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island. "The Historian as Curandera"
Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. "History as Medicine Story"
University of Connecticut, Connecticut. "Doing Feminist History"
1998
University of Minnesota, Minnesota. "The Historian as Curandera." and "Feminist Approaches to Puerto
Rican History" at 1898-1998: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.
University of Michigan, Michigan. "Remedios: Retelling the Lives of Working Women" Conference on
Women and Labor.
Rutgers University, New Jersey. Keynote: Women's History Month.
1997
Bates College, Maine. "Walking the Talk, Dancing to the Music: Living a Sustainable Activist Life."
Wichita State University, Kansas. "The Historian As Curandera: Doing Community Based History"
CSU Monterey Bay, California. "Life Stories and History"
UC Santa Cruz, California. "The Historian As Curandera: Doing Activist Historical Research."
1996
University of Michigan, Michigan. With Richard Levins. "Activist Science, Activist Culture: A
Daughter and Father on Their Work."
Adrian College, Michigan. Día de los Muertos
Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, Puerto Rico. "Migration: The Story I Call Home."
1995
Adrian College, Michigan. Día de los Muertos: Honoring Our Ancestors.
Brown University, Rhode Island. Keynote, Mixed Heritage Week.
San Francisco JCC. “Radical Jewish Heritage.” Panel: Diversity Among Jewish Women.
California Institute for Integral Studies. "Understanding and Dismantling Privilege."
1994
University of Michigan, Michigan. " The Historian as Curandera," and "Jewish Diversity."
Adrian College, Michigan. Postomodernist SymposiumKeynote: "Remedios: Retelling History
Through Puerto Rican Women's Lives."
Cabrillo College, California. "Building Community, Building Alliances."
UC Santa Cruz, California. "Activist Jews: Acting from Our Jewishness"
San Francisco Hillel, California. Keynote: "Ain't I A Woman: Women, Identity and Diversity"
Hillel, Berkeley, California. Workshops: "Radical Jewish Heritage," "The Isms Intertwined."
1993
Earlham College, Indiana. "Cultural Identity/Cultural Activism"
Antioch College, Ohio. "Coalition Building Workshop" Diversity Training Series,
Brooklyn College, New York. "Puerto Rican Jewish Identity."
UC San Diego, California. Coalition Building Workshop, Women's Resource Center.
University of Vermont, Vermont. "Education for the Long Haul"
Knox College, Illinois. "Coalition Building"
1992
1990
SUNY-Albany, New York. "Multiple Identities"
Antioch College, Ohio. "Multicultural Feminisms"
Middlebury College, Vermont. "Multiple Choices: Puerto Rican, Jewish and Immigrant in the
Radcliffe University. Women's Expo, "Feminism and Racism"
Smith College, Women's Awareness Week, Keynote speaker
Amherst College, “Writing From Your Roots”
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