Cynthia Garza
Senior Program Manager for Public Engagement & Evaluation- Stone Center for Latin American Studies
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Biography
Cynthia's career in education began in Peru, as an advocate for working children who were an average of 2-5 years behind in traditional schooling. For the past two decades, Cynthia has worked in diverse school environments throughout New Orleans, most recently through Tulane SOPA's PreK-12 Education Programs. Before Tulane, Cynthia taught Social Studies and English Language Arts at Ecole Bilingue de la Nouvelle-Orléans, where she led study abroad trips to Martinique and France, and Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Studies as a Professor of Practice at Loyola University. At Warren Easton High School, Cynthia led a cultural exchange program to Peru, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. In 2017, she was selected as one of ten educators from across the country as a Harvard University Globalizing the Classroom teaching fellow. In addition to her career as an educator, Cynthia worked in Washington, DC as Director of Advocacy and Community Relations for the DC Immigrant Coalition and as After School Programs Director at Casa del Pueblo Community Program.
Degrees
- PhD., ABD Tulane University, Latin American Studies
- M.A. Tulane University, Latin American Studies
- B.A. Loyola University, Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures
Languages
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Overseas Experience
- Peru
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Russia
Selected Publications
- 2012. “Colliding with Memory: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani’s Sin Titulo.” 2012. In The Art of Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru, edited by Cynthia Milton. Duke University Press.
- 2012. "Twice Removed: New Orleans Garifuna in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina." 2012. In Displaced: Voices from the Katrina Diaspora, edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- 2008. “Contemporary Cimarronaje: Teatre del Milenio’s Kimbafá,” e-misférica issue 5.2, spring 2008, edited by Jill Lane and Marcial Godoy-Anativa
