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Greater Boston Youth Organizers Reflect on Hostile Terrain 94
Join us for a panel discussion on Border Violence and Activism related to the Hostile Terrain 94 Installation at Boston University
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About this event
This panel will consist of local youth who actively work and organize around immigration justice in the Greater Boston Area. The discussion will consist of their reflections on the themes of Hostile Terrain 94: an art exhibit on the violence of border enforcement at the US-Mexico border, as well as information about the work they do and how BU students can get involved.
This panel is presented in partnership with Empowerment League (EL), one of many programs run through Boston University's Community Service Center. EL works with various community organizations throughout the city of Boston to provide a range of volunteer opportunities; usually with a focus on education, immigration, healthcare, housing, criminal justice, and more.
For more information about the exhibit, please visit our website.
About Our Panelists
Gabriela Maria Cartagena is a 25 year old first generation Salvadoreña and Hondureña born and raised in East Boston. She’s a community organizer, artist, and educator. Her parents immigrated over 29 years ago from El Salvador and as a result of her parents’ hard work has been photographing since they gave Gabriela her first Nokia Slide cellphone in the seventh grade in 2008. She’s taught photography workshops independently taught across Latin America in a local collective gallery called: Taller Comunitario Jose Marti in Habana, Cuba and in Ciudad de México, Mexico in the Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, UNAM, for free for local students and community members. Before teaching at UNAM July 2019 Gabriela graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston, UMB, with a BA in Supply Chain Management and minors in Literature, French, and Cinema Studies. She’s produced two films that have been chosen by the Immigrant Film Festival 2019 in Washington D.C. and the Bijoux Creative Award by the Cinema Studies department at UMB for documentary experimental films titled: Exodus to Detention and Refugee Mojado. She’s currently co-directing a full feature docu-drama called CARAVANA.
Fiona Phie is an Indonesian-American woman and current UMass Boston Senior, studying Political Science and International Relations. She has been involved with March For Our Lives: Boston for the past 2 ½ years and currently serves as Executive Director for Youth Gun Violence Prevention. Fiona also currently serves as an intern for the Congressional Office of the Honorable Ayanna Pressley – MA7.• Fiona Phie – an Indonesian-American woman and current UMass Boston Senior, studying Political Science and International Relations. She has been involved with March For Our Lives: Boston for the past 2 ½ years and currently serves as Executive Director for Youth Gun Violence Prevention. Fiona also currently serves as an intern for the Congressional Office of the Honorable Ayanna Pressley – MA7.
About Hostile Terrain 94 & Our Sponsors
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art exhibition organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), and brought to Boston University by the College of Arts & Sciences and the BU Arts Initiative, with support from Latin American Studies, the College of General Studies, BU History Department, BU Archaeology Department, and the BU Hub.
The exhibition illuminates the humanitarian crisis occurring at the United States’ border, a crisis that has claimed over 3,200 lives since the 1990s and continues to do so each and every day.
For more information about the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit and getting involved, please visit our website.
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