Autor: Ana M. López

López is a long time human rights and Puerto Rican independence activists and advocate; 31 years as an educator, bilingual curriculum developer for secondary education and professor at Humanities Dept. (Latinos Studies Unit) of Eugenio Maria de Hostos of the City University of NY in the South Bronx (higher education), writer, journalist, political analyst and strategist for building human rights freedom campaigns like the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners (1980-1999); NY Coordinator to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera in NYC (2012-2017), a founding member of the 35 mujeresXOscar NYC, organizer for community empowerment, designer of different organizing models for community development, organizer of coalitions in human rights, labor and social justice and grass root community organizer for more than 45 years.