<b></b><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2">Greetings all,<br><br>Cupid, Amalia, Cristy, myself and Adanna (from the dance program) will be on a panel on the experiences of women of color artists in academia during this weekend's Womyn of Color Conference at UCR. We'd love for you to join us!<br>
<br>xoxo,<br>Ching-In<br></font><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><u><b>Can Community Voices Thrive Within the Ivory Tower?
Women of Color Artists in Academia Panel</b></u></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><u><b>Sunday, June 1, </b></u></font><font size="2"><u><b>WOMYN OF COLOR CONFERENCE @ UCR, 11:45am - 1pm, Watkins 1000</b></u></font></p>
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<font size="2">Where can women of
color artists find support to focus on making their art? Is academia
a viable option? This panel will focus on the experience of women of
color artists in the academic system (both those in MFA and PhD
programs) -- why we've made the choice to enter into academia, how it
supports or doesn't support our creative process, whether it's been
hard or easy to find community within these programs/institutions,
and our experience within these programs.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><u><b><br></b></u></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><u><b>Moderator</b></u></font><font size="2"><b>:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b>Ching-In
Chen</b></font><font size="2"><span>
is the author </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>of
</span></span></font><font size="2"><i><span>The
Heart's Traffic</span></i></font><font size="2"><span>
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>(Arktoi
Books/Red Hen Press, 2009), which feature the adventures of a girl
called Xiaomei. </span></span></font><font size="2"><span>Past
occupations include karaoke singer, flautist, 1st grade literacy
teacher, community organizer, construction job counselor, and a
severely lost person in the Rocky Mountains. Her poems have appeared
or are forthcoming </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>in
</span></span></font><font size="2"><i><span>Water~Stone
Review,</span></i></font><font size="2"><span>
</span></font><font size="2"><i><span>Fifth
Wednesday Journal, </span></i></font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>and</span></span></font><font size="2"><i><span>
OCHO</span></i></font><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>.
</span></span></font><font size="2"><span>A
Kundiman Asian American Fellow, Ching-In is currently in the MFA
program in Creative Writing at UC Riverside. </span></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><u><b>Panelists:</b></u></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b>Amalia
Alvarez</b></font><font size="2"><span>
has performed her poetry at Hip Hop Califest 2008, 94.1 KPFA in
Berkeley, the Houston radio show, Nuestra Palabra on 90.1 FM, San
Francisco's Second Sundays, Dalva, Spoken City, Bay Area High
Schools, numerous political events, San Francisco State University,
UC Riverside, Cerritos College, and Colorado State University. In
2006, she received an honorable mention in San Francisco's Browning
Society Dramatic Monologue Contest for "</span></font><font size="2"><i><span>Revolutionary
Women Are More Beautiful."</span></i></font><font size="2"><span>
Her one act play, </span></font><font size="2"><i><span>Blazing</span></i></font><font size="2"><span>,
was selected for production at San Francisco State's Studio Theater
from March 13-17 2006. She has taught poetry workshops with youth in
Oaxaca, Mexico, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Riverside, CA,
Fort Collins, CO, Chester, PA, and Phoenix, AZ. Alvarez has published
in Fem Magazine, The Oaxaca Times, The Underground Railroad, and
Cipactli, San Francisco State's Raza Studies Journal. She will
complete her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from UC Riverside in
June 2008 and currently teaches within the Creative Writing
Department at UCR.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b>Cristián
Flores</b></font><font size="2"><span>
received her bachelor's degree and M.F.A. in Creative Writing &
Writing for the Performing Arts from UCR. She was the recipient of
the 2006 Clara Peretzman Scholarship for Immigrant Women. She is
currently working on her first book of poetry and also pursuing a
degree in music while training for the Long Beach Marathon. Her work
has appeared in the Mosaic Literary Journal, The Magazine of UC
Riverside. </span></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b>Cupid
Flowers</b></font><font size="2">
attended Grambling State University (Grambling, Louisiana) for three
semesters before transferring to the University of Oklahoma, where
she received a BA in Film & Video Studies. After living in
Florida and Arkansas, she moved to Riverside to attend graduate
school at the UCR. She is currently studying for the Master of Fine
Arts in Creative Writing with emphases in screenwriting and poetry.</font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia,serif;"><font size="2"><b>Adanna
Kai Jones</b><span>:
Currently, </span>I am a
first year PhD student in the Dance History and Theory Program. For
my undergraduate degree, I attended Mason Gross School of the
Arts--Rutgers University (New Jersey) and received a BFA in Dance. I
am currently interested in researching the Hip Hop dance scene in
Cuba, which I hope to further develop into the focus of my
dissertation. </font>
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