Frances Negrón-Muntaner  

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, scholar, and professor at Columbia University, where she is also the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activisms Archive at Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. Negrón-Muntaner has received various recognitions, including the United Nations' Rapid Response Media Mechanism designation as a global expert in the areas of mass media and Latin/o American studies (2008); the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, (2012), the Latin American Studies Association’s Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award (2019), and the Premio Borimix from the Society for Educational Arts in New York (2019). She is currently the director of Columbia’s Greater Caribbean Program. Her most recent art project is Valor y Cambio, an art, digital storytelling, and just economy project in Puerto Rico and New York (valorymcambio.org). (7/16)