Resumen del Año 20132013 Year In Review

Invierno/Winter 2013

• February/febrero 2013: U. of Texas Austin– “Refashioning Blackness: Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas”; Presentation-Afrolatin@ Digital Citizenship: Mobile Telephony, Web 2.0 and Digital Humanities (Presentación-Ciudadanía Digital Afrolatin@, Telefonia Móvil, Web 2.0 y Humanidades Digitales)

Ministra Luiza Barrios SEPPIR-Brazil Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, IDCARAN Colombia

Tomás Fernández Robaina, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí Habana

Primavera/Spring 2013

• April/abril 2013: Release of Spring journal: “Inclusion, Development and Technology” / Lanzamiento del Jornal de Primavera: “Inclusión, Desarrollo y Tecnología” • May/mayo 2013: Organized documentary screening / Documental “Nosotros Afroperuanos”. Co-

sponsored by Arturo Schomburg Democratic Club of East Harlem, Afropresencia.com, LUNDU, & AfroIncas Productions

Photo #1 (L-R) NYS Assemblyman 68th Dist. Robert Rodriguez, Jr., Director Gabriella Watson & Monica Carrillo Director/Founder LUNDU-Peru;

*Press: Amsterdam News, N.Y. : http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/jun/13/notable-afro-brazilian-film-director-gabriela/

• May/mayo 2013: Partner with Amara and launch Afrolatin@ Project Open Translation Initiative / Iniciativa Traduccion Abierta

Verano/Summer 2013

• June/junio 2013: 1st Afrolatino Festival of NY/1er Festival Afrolatino de NY. Two Dinners-for-2 Raffles with La Caye Restaurant & De Porres Dinner Series

• August/September agosto/septiembre 2013: Licensed content for PBS/WNET documentary (Licenciado contenido para Documental de PBS/WNET): “Latinoamericanos of New York and NJ”

• Created subtitles of LUNDU-Peru documentary: “AfroPeru” / Creo subtitulos para Documental de LUNDU-Peru: “AfroPeru”

Otono/Fall 2013

• September/septiembre 2013: Panelist- “Consortium of Afrolatino Communities” (Panelista –”Consorcio de Comunidadaes Afrolatinos”). Baltimore City Community College

• September/October septiembre/octubre 2013: “3-Day Afrolatinidad Series for Hispanic Heritage Month. School supplies collected for Escuela Primaria de Bastimientos in Bocas del Toro Panama. Co-organized with Que Bajo Records, La Caye Restaurant , Madiba Restaurant & Yemanja Caribe. Brooklyn, NY

• October/octubre 2013: Bank of NY Mellon Latin America Economic Development Panel. Presentation: "Mobile Banking, Microfinance and Afrodescendants” (Presentación: Bancario Móvil, Microfinanza y Afrodescendientes). New York, NY

• November/noviembre 2013: Co-organizer of ThatCamp Caribe 2.0 Digital Humanities (Un)conference. Habana, Cuba

2014 Public Programming

Programming Schedule for 2014/ Horario de Programación para 2014

• February 18, 2014 St. John's School of Law- Symposium: Human Rights, Afrodescendants and Technology {Simposio-“Derechos Humanos, Afrodescendientes y Tecnología”), Queens, NY

• February 2014: Documentary Screening/ Presentacion de Documentales -“AfroPeru” ( LUNDU); "Petronia Alvarez” & "Martina Camargo” (C.W.M.)

• April 2014: Moderator –CUNY Queens College Roundtable/Mesa Redonda: “"Abdias do Nascimento and Candomblé, Santería and Afro-Latino Politics in Brazil and Cuba”. Queens, NY

• June 2014: Participating in the 1st Afrolatino Festival of New York 2014.Brooklyn, NY

• August 2014: 100 Years of the Panama Canal /100 Años del Canal de Panamá

• TBD: Community Economic Development Symposium; Tech Salon NYC Conference