Kristina García

News Officer

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.

Penn’s urban forest in fall

Penn’s West Philadelphia campus is home to 240 different tree species, which put on a show during the fall season.

Kristina García ・November 13, 2023

In a room decorated with armed services' flags, pictures of service members, and stars, President Liz Magill talks with Landon Le, a second-year student.

Serving service members

There are more than 18 million veterans and an additional 1.6 million service members in the United States. Around 297 of them are students at Penn. In a Nov. 9 event, the University honored these students with an event coordinated by the Veteran and Military Affiliated Students program.

Kristina García ・November 9, 2023

Experts address ‘our changing environment’

Economist R. Jisung Park and political scientist Alice Xu address climate change in an event hosted by the School of Social Policy & Practice.

Kristina García ・November 6, 2023

A group of students stand with their professor and teaching assistance. A word on the screen behind them reads, "Mabuhay!" meaning long life.

Filipino language and culture

Started in 1996, Penn’s Filipino language program is populated with students looking to connect with their culture and converse with their families.

Kristina García ・October 30, 2023

Andrea Cherng speaks to a roomful of students in the McNeil Atrium

The Asian American studies program doubles in size

Three core and two affiliated faculty members with expertise in English, sociology, history, anthropology, and education join the Asian American studies program.

Kristina García ・October 27, 2023

A group of people gather in front of a colorful mural depicting a series of stylized birds. Confetti rains.

Showcasing an Andean cosmovision

In a monthlong residency, Aymara artist Roberto Mamani Mamani met with students, gave a lecture, hosted a workshop, and painted a mural in South Philadelphia.

Kristina García ・October 12, 2023

A group of Native Americans standing in a row. The trees behind are bare; it looks to be cold.

Dispossessions and race in the Americas

Belén Unzueta is teaching a seminar on the historical account of race and ethnicity in the Americas as a Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative graduate fellow.

Kristina García ・October 6, 2023

Julia Ognibene gives two thumbs up next to a series of sinks

Julia Ognibene shadows doctors in Italy

Julia Ognibene spent the summer connecting with family and shadowing doctors in Italy

Kristina García ・September 29, 2023

A group of people cluster around Mira Nair at the Penn Museum with the Sphinx in the background.

Filmmaker Mira Nair’s approach to storytelling

As a Saluja Global Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, filmmaker Mira Nair gave a lecture at the Penn Museum on art, storytelling, and filmmaking.

Kristina García ・September 19, 2023

Catherine Sorrentino in front of College Hall

Who, What, Why: Catherine Sorrentino and a souvenir of historic Germantown

During a summer internship, history major Catherine Sorrentino encountered a 108-year-old book with insights into Black Philadelphia.

Kristina García ・September 15, 2023

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