Leticia Hernandez-Linares

Leticia

Leticia Hernandez-Linares

Contributor, Luis J. Rodriguez Anthology

Leticia Hernández-Linares is a bilingual, interdisciplinary writer, artist, and racial justice educator. The first-generation U.S. born daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, she is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl & Alejandria Fights Back!  ¡La lucha de Alejandria!  Widely published, she is the co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and her work appears in Maestrapeace, San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural and Other Musics: New Latina Poetry. She has performed her poemsongs, delivered keynotes, and presented throughout the United States and in El Salvador. A five-time San Francisco Arts Commission grantee, she has also received support from the Creative Work Fund and Zellerbach Family Foundation for her interdisciplinary projects.  Her equity-focused education work includes curriculum development, executive leadership, and school reform. For over two decades, she has lived, created, and protested in the Mission District of San Francisco. Currently, she is an Artist in Residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

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