A native of Puerto Rico, Yomaira was born and raised in Hoboken, NJ and is a first-generation high school and college graduate. She is Associate Professor of Global Afro-Diaspora Studies in the department of English at Michigan State University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. in English, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Douglass College).

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Geography Awareness Week starts this Wednesday, November 2nd and culminates in a tabling outside Whitehall on Nov 9th, 8:30–noon. We have three activities that people can participate in:

• Pin your hometown on a poster map that is laminated and mounted on a 40" x 42" foam board.
• Virtually pin your hometown on a web map of the world.
• Find hidden gems around campus in a virtual geocache.

More details here.

Come for "Geography Fast Takes" where faculty and students share about their on-going research activites.