Partner Event: Curls, Coils, and Waves: The Afro Latina Experience

Join the NYU Latinx Alumni Network and The Latinx Project for a celebration of Afro-Latinidad—featuring a panel discussion and an exclusive sizzle reel preview screening of I’m Not My Hair, a documentary by Cynthia Bastidas chronicling the natural hair journey of an Afro-Latina woman, Cristina Garcia de Leon, and the various ways anti-Blackness manifests itself in the everyday life of Afro-descendant women. The short screening and discussion with Bastidas and Leon will kick-off a panel discussion with Afro-Latina women professionals. They will discuss their work and personal experiences with the topic, as well as their own relationship with their identities. Panelists will include:

Tanya K. Hernandez, Professor at Fordham University School of Law, Author of Racial Innocence
Leiry Santos, Assistant Director of the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at NYU
Sulma Arzu-Brown, Author, Scholastic Mentor, Owner of Sulma LLC
Griselle Baret (Moderator), Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection

Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the event will start at 6:30 PM. The first 25 attendees will receive a copy of Arzu-Brown’s book Bad Hair Does Not Exist/Pelo Malo No Existe. The event will conclude with a reception featuring Afro-Latin resources, art pieces, and raffles.