OjO Latino
Is a project created by and for the Latinx community in Pittsburgh, PA that depicts the lives of working immigrants on the verge of the first Trump presidency. OjO Latino uses PhotoVoice—a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology that uses photographs and narratives from community members to shed light on a research question. The curated images and accompanying narratives have been exhibited publicly
and compiled into a digital archive.
Disrespecting the Border
It was developed in dialogue with the Other Border Wall project and brought together 22 community members (ages 7–63) to create Pittsburgh’s first Latinx mural. After installation in multiple locations, the mural will find a permanent home at the headquarters of Casa San José, a community resource center in Pittsburgh’s Latinx enclave of Beechview.
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Wage Theft in Hartfort
Wage theft is widespread in the U.S. and disproportionately affects immigrants. In collaboration with Hartford Deportation Defense, a cohort of UConn undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in my community-based participatory research methods course studied the problem of wage theft in Hartford’s Latinx immigrant community. Funded by an Allan R. Bennett CLAS grant for public health policy research, the final report will be available in March 2025.
The Frog Hollow People’s History Project
It was envisioned by the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance and carried out by Trinity College student researchers from my Community-Engaged Research course. The digital archive captures the rich and diverse history of this Puerto Rican/Latinx neighborhood in Hartford.
Ancestors Today: Visual Stories of Migrant Women
It was a project led by Mapuche artist, curator, and filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo in collaboration with Arte Popular, a Hartford-based immigrant women’s collective. The group created an art installation to serve as a portal for the acknowledgment and healing of wounds from the migratory process, which was exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art as part of Entre Mundos: Art of Abiayala.
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