Discovering queer identity in hip hop: Silvia Galis-Menendez at TEDxWellesleyCollege

Silvia Galis-Menéndez graduated from Wellesley, where she founded Familia, an organization for LGBTQQIAP students of Latin@ descent, and served as co-president of Mezcla, Wellesley's largest organization for Latin@ students, and worked at Café Hoop, a student cooperative. Silvia is the 2013 winner of the Margaret E. Ward Prize for Excellence in Women's and Gender Studies, and graduated from Wellesley with honors in the Women's and Gender Studies department. Since graduating from Wellesley in May, Silvia has presented her research at the El Mundo Zurdo Conference for the study of Gloria Anzaldúa. She currently lives in New York City where she works as the Operations Coordinator at La Casa Azul bookstore, and spends her free time trying to understand what is happening on Scandal.

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