Rosario Zonaly Hernández

M.A. Student

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rhernandez14@unm.edu

Bio

She is a master’s student in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of New Mexico and part of the Project for New Mexico Graduate of Color (PNMGC). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Faculty of
Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her work focuses on constructing Afro-descendant identity and the configuration of the Mexican nation-state. Her research in the Chicano Studies Department centers on the history and presence of Afro-Mexican people within the United States and the Chicana/o community.

She was part of the teaching staff at Cine en las Aldeas and Filma Afro in 2023. She previously worked at Consejo para Prevenir y Eliminar la Discriminación de la Ciudad de México (COPRED) in 2023 and has served as a Teaching Assistant
at the FCPyS. She holds a Certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies from the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University. She is a member of the Observatorio Coyuntural de Antropologı́a (OCA) at ENAH. She has
completed a course on Black and African feminisms from a decolonial perspective offered by MAD A& frica and a specialization course in African American Studies from PUIC-UNAM. She participated in the Agenda del Movimiento Afromexicano conference, organized by Fulbright Comexus, and in the colloquium "Coloquio Reflexiones a un año de la inclusión constitucional afromexicana" at PUIC-UNAM.

She is an Afro-Mexican woman born and raised in Mexico City. As an activist, she has worked with various organizations that advocate for the visibility and human rights of the Afro-Mexican population in Mexico. Also, she is involved with Amigos por un Sahara Libre Collective.