Cafe con Pam12 Sep 2021

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts with Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

Listeners, we're back this week with Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez.

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia. To date she has published over 200 articles online and participated in the Young Adult anthology "Nevertheless, We Persisted." Recently Prisca also participated in an anthology edited by Lynda Lopez titled, "The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez."

She started the platform Latina Rebels in 2013, and currently it boasts over 300k organic followers online. She has been featured in Telemundo, Univision, Mitú, Huffington Post Latino Voices, Guerrilla Feminism, Latina Mag, Cosmopolitan, Everyday Feminism, and was invited to the White House in the Fall of 2016. She is unapologetic, angry, and uncompromising about protecting and upholding the stories of Latinx communities. Que viva la gente!Currently Prisca is writing her first full length book with Seal Press a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, and due to be out September 7, 2021.

During our conversation, we talked about:

The process of writing her book
An unpublished interview that never aired at Cafe con Pam
Her experience of living in Tennessee
Her college experience
Impostor syndrome
Starting Latina Rebels
And more

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