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Kristina García

News Officer
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  • Kristina García

    Kristina Garcia covers several subject areas in the School of Arts & Sciences including Africana Studies + Penn Program on Race, Science, & Society, Romance Languages + Center for Italian Studies, South Asia Studies, the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), South Asia Center, Religious Studies, Latin American Latino Studies, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. She also supports coverage of the School of Social Policy & Practice, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, Penn First Plus, University Life, and the Student Cultural Centers.

    Articles from Kristina García
    Projects for Progress, two years in
    A group of people in front of a PowerPoint that reads "Penn Projects for Progress"

    The Projects for Progress awards reception celebrated the 2021 and 2022 recipients. 2021 recipients are pictured with Charles “Chaz” Howard, University Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity & Community. (Image: Eddy Marenco)

     

    Projects for Progress, two years in

    An Oct. 17 event celebrated six teams of Penn students, faculty, and staff working to promote equity and inclusion in Philadelphia by addressing health care, education, and systemic racism as part of the Projects for Progress.

    Kristina García

    LGBT Center by the numbers
    A group of people wearing bright colors strike a pose on the patio of the LGBT Center

    The LGBT Center’s “Dance Outside with Pride” event in June 2021.

    LGBT Center by the numbers

    To celebrate the LGBT Center’s 40th anniversary year and in honor of National Coming Out Day, Penn Today takes a look at the numbers.

    Kristina García

    The significance of Indigenous People’s Day
    Two woman in a garden.

    Ryly Ziese (left) and Nyair Locklear (right) outside the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

    The significance of Indigenous People’s Day

    Two Penn students, Nyair Locklear, of the Tuscarora Nation and a member of the Lumbee Tribe, and Ryly Ziese, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, offer their points of view on the significance of Indigenous People’s Day

    Kristina García

    Finding community in the Jewish High Holy Days
    A cut apple and pomegranate surround a honey jar with a wooden honey stick on top. An uncut apple and pomegranate are in the background.

    Finding community in the Jewish High Holy Days

    Three cultural and academic leaders at Penn consider how a return to experiencing Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in person offered physical and spiritual healing.

    Kristina García , Michele W. Berger

    ‘Citizenship on the Edge’
    A book cover depicting a woman wearing a striped top and face and body paint. She is holding a rainbow flag. The book cover reads: Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race

    A new book by anthropologist Deborah A. Thomas and political scientist Nancy J. Hirschmann compiles a series of essays examining citizenship from an interdisciplinary lens. 

    ‘Citizenship on the Edge’

    In a new book, anthropologist Deborah A. Thomas and political scientist Nancy J. Hirschmann look at who’s kept out of social governance and belonging.

    Kristina García

    The television and the President
    A black and white image of Harry Truman speaking in front of a microphone.

    The first televised presidential speech was given by Harry Truman on Oct.5, 1947. (Image: AP Photo/Herbert K. White)

    The television and the President

    On Oct. 5 1947, Harry Truman delivered the first televised presidential speech. Communications expert David Eisenhower looks at the history of politics and media and the significance of this moment 75 years later.  

    Kristina García

    Zero tolerance: Family separation and U.S. immigration policy
    Efrén Olivares speaks to a crowd of people holding signs that say "end zero tolerance," "no human is illegal," and "not one more deportation."

    Olivares speaks to a group of people about immigration in McAllen, Texas during a rally to demand an end to the zero-tolerance policy in June 2019. (Image credit: Texas Civil Rights Project)

    Zero tolerance: Family separation and U.S. immigration policy

    In the 2022 Dolores Huerta keynote lecture, lawyer Efrén C. Olivares, Class of 2005, spoke on his personal and professional experience with immigration.

    Kristina García

    A robot made of sticks
    A person sticks a paper coffee cup inside some branches holding together the stickbot.

    Carroll adjusts StickBot to work in grasper mode, where the robot holds a coffee cup. 

    A robot made of sticks

    Devin Carroll, a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is designing a modular robot called StickBot, which may be adapted for rehabilitation use in global public health settings.

    Kristina García

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean
    Antonia M. Villarruel addresses the audience while Emily Hannum, Tulia Falleti, and LaShawn Jefferson look on. A sign behind the group reads: Perry World House.

    From left to right: Antonia M. Villarruel, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at Penn Nursing, Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, Tulia Falleti, director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and LaShawn Jefferson, executive director of Perry World House, at the conference opening plenary.

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean

    This year’s Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean conference hosted by Perry World House focused on the theme of “Shared Narratives: Arts, Culture and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

    Kristina García

    Sex workers’ rights
    A woman wearing a mask and a white lab coat sits at a table covered in a colorful tablecloth, pills, and packages of medication

    Ahealth professional surrounded by medication at one of the clinics for sex workers. (Image: Toorjo Ghose)

    Sex workers’ rights

    A Fulbright award augments Toorjo Ghose’s work to document and support the social movement happening among sex workers in India against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Kristina García

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