Immigrant Activism Today | Latin American Studies

Immigrant Activism Today

In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding DACA, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music, Chair of the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department, and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Latin American Studies, spoke first with Magalis Troncoso, Executive Director of the Centro Dominicano in Boston, and then with Heloisa Galvão, co-founder and Executive Director of the Brazilian Women’s Group in Boston, and Damariz Posada, a Boston University School of Theology student and DACA recipient, about the ruling and its implications. The interviews can be viewed below or on our Vimeo page.

Immigrant Activism Today: A Conversation with Magalis Troncoso from BU Latin American Studies on Vimeo.

Immigrant Activism Today: A conversation with Damariz Posada & Heloisa Galvão from BU Latin American Studies on Vimeo.

Statement on Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

At the Center for Latin American Studies, we believe in and practice respect for individual differences in life experience, sexual orientation, and religious belief, and we aspire to be free of intellectual parochialism, barriers to access, and ethnocentrism. We appreciate and deeply value the contributions and talents of every member of the Boston University community and invite you to learn more about us.