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Yarimar Bonilla, Interim Director of El Centro (Hunter College/CUNY)
Dr. Yarimar Bonilla has been named interim director of CENTRO Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños [Center for Puerto Rican Studies] at Hunter College/CUNY. A search will be soon underway for permanent director. [For more information, see CENTRO.]
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab today announced the appointment of Professor Yarimar Bonilla as Interim Director of El Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter/CUNY (el Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños). Dr. Bonilla, Professor of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies in the Anthropology Department, will be the first woman to head Centro in its 48-year-history. She will assume the post following the retirement of longtime director Dr. Edwin Meléndez, which takes effect June 30. Hunter will conduct a national search with a diverse and inclusive search committee for a permanent director for El Centro.