Black, Latino Male Initiative & Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies Series Launch with Author Elisabet Velasquez - October 7, 2025. Photos of the event by Prof. Mike Mena
Class of 2024 Childhood Bilingual Education and Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies Concentration graduates!
Puerto Rican and Latinx Department colleagues and I all smiles with our 2024 grads who were not only in our Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies courses but also active through local campus organizations such as the Puerto Rican Alliance.
Fall 2023 presentation at Medgar Evers College, CUNY with mentee Maricruz Sánchez-Hernández, colleague Dr. Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, and NYCPS educator Rebecca Quiñones. So much of my teaching is informed by research and it was a joy to present on my latest study.
Spring 2024 Spanish Language Arts for the Bilingual Child course has a virtual visit from Dr. Ángel Gonzalez, Ph.D., CUNY grad (Hunter College) and currently De La Salle Academy’s Head of School.
Fall 2023 Bilingualism in the 21st Century course visit to the Brooklyn College Library to watch the Antonia Pantoja ¡Presente! documentary.
Poet, Literary Activist, Judge, Educator, Judge, Curator, and Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence for Spring 2023 JP Howard visited my PRLS 2005 course!
During the Spring 2023 semester I had a book club in Spanish in my PRLS 4430 course reading Elisabet Velasquez’s Y si lo logramos: una historia nuyorican. I do a lot of my reading on my commute.
Facilitated the “Youth Literature and the Latinx Diaspora” event co-sponsored by the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities in Spring 2023. We welcomed authors Lorraine Avila, Saraciea J. Fennell, Camille Gomera-Tavarez, Elisabet Velasquez, and Ibi Zoboi. Photograph by Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Prof. and Photographer, Dr. Mike Mena
Fall 2022 PRLS 1001 class trip! We visited the “No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria” exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Welcome to Brooklyn College Puerto Rican and Latino Studies with Prof. España Fall 2022! My PRLS 1001: Intro to PRLS class watched the Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College at the start of the semester. Loved starting our course this way.
You are only as strong as your community. Grateful to start my journey at Brooklyn College with Dr. Mike Mena in Fall 2022. Selfie is from our first week of classes! Happy we got to collaborate on a series of workshops for CUNY Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) titled, “Video, Podcasting, and Multimodality for Teaching and Project Design” during summer 2023.