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  • Joan Morgan

    Journalism // Winter 2013

    Joan Morgan is especially known for her work in the field of “hip-hop feminism,” a term she coined in her 1999 book, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. She began a career in journalism as a freelance writer for The Village Voice. The response to her first article, “The Pro-Rape Culture” about the Central Park jogger, “established Morgan’s reputation as a black-feminist writer who was unafraid of tackling the most highly charged topics.” A graduate of Wesleyan University, she has taught at the New School, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University. Morgan will come to Stanford in the winter to teach a course entitled “The Pleasure Principle: A Post-Hip Hop Search for a Black Feminist Politics of Pleasure.”

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  • Ala Ebtekar

    Visual Artist // Spring 2013

    Ala Ebtekar’s works and installations explore the intersection of contemporary hip-hop culture and traditional Persian culture. He creates fluid, graceful pieces that inhabit a realm where the past and present collide in a perpetual dance of deconstructed and reconstructed time and space. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and throughout the United States. As IDA’s Spring 2013 Visiting Artist, Ebtekar will be teaching a course entitled, “Art in the Streets: Identity in murals, site-specific works, and interventions in public spaces.” (CSRE 122E)

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  • Favianna Rodriguez

    Visual Artist // Spring 2012

    Favianna Rodriguez is teaching "Show Me Your Papers: Immigration, Youth, Printmaking & Storytelling For Social Justice" in the spring quarter of 2012. She is a celebrated printmaker and digital artist based in Oakland, California. Using high-contrast colors and vivid figures, her composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant day laborers in the U.S., mothers of disappeared women in Juárez, Mexico, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens. Through her work we witness the changing U.S. metropolis and a new diaspora in the arts.

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  • Rubén Martínez

    Writer/Performer // Fall 2012

    Rubén Martínez is an award-winning journalist, author and performer. Among the themes covered in his works are immigrant life and globalization, the cultural and political history of Los Angeles (Martinez's hometown), the civil wars of the 1980s in Central America (his mother is a native of El Salvador) and Mexican politics and culture (he is a second-generation Mexican-American on the father's side of his family).

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  • Mark Gonzales

    Spoken word // Fall 2011

    Described as ‘Khalil Gibran meets Pablo Neruda,’ Mark is a HBO Def Jam poet who has shared his writing on stage around the world, including the first TEDxRamallah talks held in Palestine, which led him to trend worldwide on Twitter. As a community builder he was an invited speaker at the United Nations tribunal on Social Exclusion. Mark’s work breaks borders to wage beauty across continents of language and culture, which has earned him respect for his creative approaches to suicide prevention, human rights and human development.

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  • Cherrie Moraga

    Playwright, Poet, and Essayist // 1969

    Playwright, poet, and essayist Cherrie Moraga has served as Artist in Residence in the Department of Drama at Stanford University for over ten years and currently holds a joint appointment with Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. For her work, Moraga has earned the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature in 2007, a Creative Work Fund Award in 2008, and the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundation Grant for Playwriting in 2009.

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  • Robert Moses

    Dance // 1969

    Robert Moses has been on the dance faculty at Stanford University since 1995, and currently holds the title of “Artist In Residence in Drama and Dance.” He also serves as Director of the Committee on Black Performing arts. He has choreographed for the San Francisco Opera and worked with numerous artists including Julia Adam, Margaret Jenkins, and Alonzo King. Prior to joining Stanford’s faculty, Moses taught at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Texas, and University of Nevada.

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  • Aleta Hayes

    Dance // 1969

    Aleta Hayes is a “contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer, and teacher.” She holds an M.F.A in Dance and Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Drama, Dance and the Visual Arts from Stanford. Most recently, Hayes founded The Chocolate Heads Movement Band in 2009 (a collective of dancers, musicians, visual artists, performance poets and writers), and has collaborated with performer Cooper Moore to create a dance-music installation called “Singing the Rooms—Performance of the Everyday.”

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