Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided to write
The Undocumented Americans the day after the 2016 presidential election, though her first piece on immigration was published when she was a Harvard senior (byline: Anonymous). Anonymous no more, she has since written for the
New Yorker,
The Atlantic,
The New Republic, and ELLE.com, among others, and her National Book Award-shortlisted nonfiction book came out in paperback today.
The Ecuador-born Villavicencio once wrote about music for a jazz publication and indie rock blogs (she dreamed of fronting a rock band as a kid, but didn’t have access to instruments or lessons, so she became a music writer instead), is a PhD candidate at Yale, has a Boston terrier named Frankie, was an Emerson Collective Fellow, likes birds and CBD oil, and loves singing along to breakup anthems played at top volume with tears in her eyes. “That’s what I want my YA novel,
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MAY 31, 1924 â FEB. 18, 2021
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Lawrence Richard âDickâ Grigg, 96, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away Feb. 18, 2021, at home in Nyssa, Oregon.
Dick was the youngest of thirteen children of Parley Mormon Grigg, Jr. and Thankful Halsey Gardner. He grew up roaming the backcountry in Idaho and helping homestead the family farm in Vale, Oregon.
During World War II, he taught electronics in the Army Air Corps and then served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Laurel Burton, who passed away in 1949; his son William Norman Grigg; his granddaughter Linda Michelle Hansen; twelve siblings; and both his parents.
The University of Oregon has received a $4.52 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new initiative envisioning a transformative.
Three Geographers Honored for Diversity and Inclusion Published December 15, 2020
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WASHINGTON, D.Câ¦.The American Association of Geographers has announced the recipients of its 2021 AAG Diversity and Inclusion Awards, which honor geographers who have pioneered or actively participated in efforts to encourage a more diverse discipline over the course of several years.
This year, the Diversity and Inclusion Awards were awarded to Raynah Kamau and Whitney Kotlewski, creators of Black Girls M.A.P.P. and the People for the People (P4TP) initiative, and Dr. Jovan Lewis, an economic geographer who is assistant professor in both the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Geography at the University of California Berkeley.