Jonathan Montalvo Roman Attends 2019 Association for Jotería Arts, Activism and Scholarship Conference

Graceland University Assistant Professor of Spanish Jonathan Montalvo Roman, PhD

Graceland University Assistant Professor of Spanish Jonathan Montalvo Roman, PhD, attended the 2019 Association for Jotería Arts, Activism and Scholarship (AJAAS) Conference held at Portland State University from Oct. 10-12. The AJAAS conference nurtures queer Latinx, Chicanax and Indigenous individuals and communities through practices that recognize the importance of linking art, activism and scholarship. Montalvo Roman gave a presentation about the analogies used by Afro-Puerto Rican author Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro to denounce oppression and colonialism in the Puerto Rican context.