Latina/x scholar Michelle Téllez to speak. Illinois State University News. September 12, 2022.

Dr. Michelle Téllez, author of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas, Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect, will give a talk at 7 p.m. September 26, 2022 in Schroeder Hall, room 238 on the campus of Illinois State University. 

The talk is free and open to the public. Téllez’s visit is part of the celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, which runs from September 15-October 15, 2022, and is sponsored by Illinois State’s Latin American and Latino/a Studies (LALS) program, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development and the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.

“We are delighted to open Latinx Heritage Month welcoming to campus Dr. Michelle Tellez, educator and scholar of border communities, in particular women’s border activism,” said Dr. Maura Toro-Morn, director of LALS. “This year the U.S./Mexico border frames many of the lectures, events, and conversations to take place throughout the more than one-month long events.” 

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