Our team believes in searching for inspiration on prospect role models in our own community. That’s why this week’s campus celebrity is Professor Lissette Rolón Collazo, an amazing woman-power figure who’s devoted to education on every level. Prof. Rolón Collazo takes time out of her busy schedule to have a small conversation with Her Campus UPRM about her profession and upcoming projects, including the groundbreaking V Coloquio ¿Del otro La’o?: perspectivas sobre sexualidades “queer”.
- HCUPRM: How long have you been teaching in the UPRM? What classes do you teach? What is your favorite part of the job?
LRC: I’ve been teaching for 14 years, specialty courses in comparative literature and humanities. My favorite part of it is choosing education above all laboring areas.
- HCUPRM: Apart from teaching, what projects are you currently involved in?
LRC: I’m head of the Centro Universitario para el Acceso, which pursuits that more young students from public residentials get into the University of Puerto Rico. Also I’m in charge of the editorial project Editora Educación Emergente, which looks to get in circulation emergent containments and methodologies for education in all levels.
- HCUPRM: You’re the coordinator of the Coloquio ¿Del otro La’o?: perspectivas sobre sexualidades “queer”, can you tell us how the idea for this event was born?
LRC: Actually, it was created by a student; I was co-conspirator. I had previously participated in the organization for the V Coloquio de Mujeres, and so did the social sciences student; the experience motivated him to propose me a similar event in which affairs pertinent to LGBTTQ communities and their discrimination fight would be discussed on a university level. From that same moment, I supported the idea and convoked other colleagues and students; that have done the appropriate by a space of almost a decade.
- HCUPRM: What can students expect to gain from the experience of attending the event?
LRC: Co-educate themselves about social diversity, history of struggles and the intersections between types of discrimination.
- HCUPRM: As a successful woman and leader of such important social projects, what advice would you give to all of our fellow collegiettes out there?
LRC: The university cannot remain inside the classrooms; it should be built every day in all of our action spheres and all the spaces we have access to.
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