Mirelsie Velázquez (Latina/Latino Studies and Education Policy, Organization & Leadership) is a 2025–2026 HRI Faculty Fellow. Her current research project, “Genealogies of Empowerment and the Makings of Home: Latina/o Activism at the University of Illinois, 1970–1992,” shows us the ways Latina/os have been instrumental in radically transforming educational spaces amidst the contentious socio-political culture of […]
