Victor Clark

Tijuana native Víctor Clark Alfaro studied social anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and conducted doctoral studies in sociology from the University of California San Diego. He was a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) from 1981-1983 and has been a lecturer at San Diego State University since 1999. Clark is the founder and director of the Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center for Human Rights) in Tijuana. In addition, he has served as a counselor for the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (Commission for the National Development of Indigenous Peoples). A former writer for the Pacific News Service and a columnist for La Opinión in Los Angeles, he is the author of Mixtecos en Frontera (Mixtecos on the Border) and Los Mixtecos, sus mujeres y el turismo (The Mixtecs: Their Women and Tourism), which was published by and received an award from the UABC.
 

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include women, immigration, the South Asian experience, history, myth, magic, and celebrating diversity. She writes both for adults and children. Her latest work, One Amazing Thing, was published in 2010.

Divakaruni is also the author of Arranged Marriage, which won an American Book Award. Her other works, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, have been made into films. In addition, Divakaruni is an acclaimed poet whose collection, Leaving Yuba City, won a Pushcart Prize, an Allen Ginsberg Prize and a Gerbode Foundation award. Her writing has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 20 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese.

The author was born in India and lived there until 1976, when she left Calcutta and came to the United States. She earned a master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/

 

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