Tara Yanez is originally from Houston, Texas. After receiving her B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin, she developed as an educator with the Teach for America program in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Fulbright ETA program in Cali, Colombia. She received her M.A. from Columbia University in Latin American studies while interning with International Center for Transitional Justice and writing a thesis on Colombian victim reparation laws. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American Studies at Tulane University and a fellow with the Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship. Her dissertation research aims to understand how women in the urban periphery of Cali, Colombia create informal networks of resistance, security, and justice creation in environments with high rates of criminal violence. She works in collaboration with
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