Dr. Stephanie Colin, Lead Crimmigration Advocate and Limited English Proficiency Coordinator with the Orleans Public Defenders Office, will do a talk about her work with Central American migrants in the LAST 3010-01 class. Dr. Colin works directly with young migrants that fled gang violence in Central America and now face criminal charges here in Orleans Parish and/or the rest of Louisiana. The talk is open to the public.
Stephanie Colin, PhD, graduated as a double major in Spanish and English from ULL in 2013. She went on to LSU and in 2017 she received her M.A. in Hispanic studies with an emphasis in cultural studies. Her Master's thesis was titled: "Discursos contrasexuales: Subversiones queer." Stephanie taught ELL classes to students in Tijuana, Mexico from 2016-2017. She returned to LSU as a faculty member in the Spanish department from 2018-2022. Stephanie recently completed her PhD in Communication Studies in Rhetoric and Cultural Studies from LSU. In her dissertation, titled Cuir Latinidades: Decolonial Explorations of Identity and Relationality, she traces the emergence and textures of performances of cuir latinidad as theories in the flesh, cuir relationality, and expanding within the borderlands. She currently works with the Orleans Public Defenders Office as the Lead Crimmigration Advocate and Limited English Proficiency Coordinator. Stephanie and her wife along with their rescue pup, Firulais, live in New Orleans. She enjoys reading, trying new restaurants, and wine tasting in her spare time.
