About AfroLatin@Project
Board Members
Our board members are responsible for the Project's governance. They are also ultimately accountable for the Project’s activities, strategies, and financials.
Mauricio H. Anderson
Mr. Anderson is CFO and CIO at FECI, responsible for the financial leadership of FECI’s current portfolio of companies and oversees the capitalization and monetization of FECI’s significant infrastructure and commercial real estate investments, including FECI’s TOD and industrial real estate platforms. Mr. Anderson holds a B.A. degree from Swarthmore College.
Irma McClaurin
A 30 year veteran activist-scholar, bio-cultural anthropologist, administrator, poet, public intellectual, mentor and teacher. She is the founder of the Black Feminist Archive at UMass-Amherst. Her published books include Women of Belize, the seminal work Black Feminist Anthropology, among many more.
Mónica Carrillo Zegarra
Es la Directora Regional, America Latina, Thousand Currents y la fundadora y directora de Centro de Estudios y Promoción Afroperuanos (LUNDU) en Lima, Peru. Mónica Carrillo es comunicadora social, graduada en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Es también investigadora y conferencista en temas relacionados a sexualidad, género, filosofía, y diáspora africana en las Américas.
Lic. Egbert Wetherborne Perez
President and Founder of Comite Prodignidad. Former Head of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Social Development, Republic of Panama. He represented Panama in 2001 at the Durban Conference on Anti-Racism. He is a graduate of the University of Panama Law School and holds an MBA from Hull University.
Carlos Efren Agudelo
Sociólogo, e investigdor asociado al UR 107 del IRD y al CREDAL y asistente en el Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine – Universidad Paris 3 y en el IEDES – Universidad Paris 1. Fue becario del IRD (1997-2000) en el marco del programa “Identidades, migraciones y urbanización de las poblaciones afrocolombianas”. Actualmente es director de la sede centroamericano del CEMCA.
Diana Senor Angulo
Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose Politóloga e Historiadora. Profesora de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Autora del libro “Ciudadanía Afrocostarricense: el gran escenario comprendido entre 1927 y 1963“. Doctorante en Historia por el Instituto de Altos Estudios para América Latina (IHEAL) – Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle.
B. Christine Arce
Assistant professor at the University of Miami and graduated from the University of California- Berkeley with a Phd in Latin American Literature and Culture. She works on issues of race and gender in Mexican, Caribbean and Brazilian cultural production as well as indigenous and non-Western epistemologies. She is the author of México’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women (2017).
Lic. Alberto S. Barrow N
Licenciado en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad de Panamá. Ha sido animador de múltiples proyectos socio-políticos y culturales al nivel nacional y internacional en la defensa de los derechos humanos. El Lic. Barrow fue miembro de los Congreso del Negro Panameño (1981, 1983, 1987, and 1988) y miembro fundador del Comité Panameño contra el Racismo (1999).
Marva E. Wade MPH
Registered Nurse for more than 40 years. Marva is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Columbia University School of Nursing.
Roxanne Cox
(Secretary) is a Clinical Research Associate supporting the National Institute of Health (NIH). Her work focuses on Peru, Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries and communities in the Western Hemisphere. She received her BS in Biology/Pre-Medicine from Virginia State University and an MA in Community Health Education from Adelphi University.
Staff Members
Meet our staff members and learn about the specific roles they play to ensure the smooth running of the Project.
Roxanne Cox
(Secretary) is a Clinical Research Associate supporting the National Institute of Health (NIH). Her work focuses on Peru, Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries and communities in the Western Hemisphere. She received her BS in Biology/Pre-Medicine from Virginia State University and an MA in Community Health Education from Adelphi University.
Mai-Elka Prado Gil
(Treasurer) is the founder of the Afro-Latino Festival of New York. As a cultural organizer she has co-directed the annual multi-day music festival and conference which celebrates the contributions of people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. Mrs. Prado is also a singer-songwriter. She is a graduate of CUNY-Brooklyn College.
Amilcar Priestley
Director of the AfroLatin@® Project. He is responsible for all organizational and administrative matters and is also responsible for programming and strategy. Amilcar is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Brooklyn Law School.
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to serve as a resource center and cultural advocate for documentation and preservation of cultures, histories, and experiences of Afrodescendant people in the Americas and the Caribbean.
We aim to expand the conversation about identity, culture, and justice for people of African descent by presenting oral histories, as well as through digital learning, cultural performances, and educational conferences.
Our vision is to successfully use technological tools in promoting awareness and research. We want to ensure the preservation of histories and cultures, while also building support for the struggles of Afrodescendant people in the Americas and the Caribbean.
By facilitating, developing, and collaborating with research projects, we hope to ensure the ongoing cultural preservation of Afro-Latin histories and experiences.
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