Please join our UCLA Labor Studies community for Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border, an online guest speaker event featuring Fanny García, hosted by labor studies lecturer Virginia Espino.
Fanny Julissa García is an award winning Honduran-American oral historian contributing work to Central American Studies. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Oral History from Columbia University. In 2019, she was awarded the Emerging Crisis Fund Award from the Oral History Association for “Separated: An Oral History” that seeks to document the stories of families separated under zero tolerance policy. She currently serves as the lead for the Storytelling Project established by the Women’s Refugee Commission to document the lived experiences of families adversely impacted by immigration policies administered by the United States government.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
11:10 am – 12:10 pm
Zoom – Online
Register HERE.
