April 4 — NAU to present ‘Global Health, Immigration & Narrative Nonfiction’

FLAGSTAFF — On Wednesday April 4 @ 6 pm in Cline Library, Author Daisy Hernández will present, “Global Health, Immigration & Narrative Nonfiction.”

How do we talk about the health issues facing immigrant communities in the United States at a time when political discourse is so volatile and xenophobic? Is it possible to avoid the good versus bad immigrant narratives common now in conversations and public policy? Journalist and memoirist Daisy Hernández shares the lessons she’s learned from reporting and writing on infectious diseases, big pharma and the Latin American community.

Daisy Hernández has been writing about race, feminism, immigration and queer sexualities for more than fifteen years. She is the coeditor of the book Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed. The former editor of ColorLines magazine, Daisy has reported for The AtlanticThe New York Times, and Slate. Her writing has aired on NPR’s All Things Considered and has been published in many magazines including TricycleRumpus and Fourth Genre. She is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at Miami University in Ohio.

Other upcoming Latin American Studies, NAU No More Deaths and SPA GLC events for Spring 2018:

  • Tuesday April 17 at 5 pm in Science Building Room 106 , Ana Alonso Minutti, Associate Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of New Mexico will present “TBA on Latin American Music” A Latin American Studies event
  • Wednesday May 2 at 7 pm in Clifford E. White Theater, An evening of Latin American one-act Plays, presented by SPA 322.
  • Friday May 4 at 7 pm in Clifford E. White Theater, An evening of Latin American one-act Plays, presented by SPA 322.