Visiting Scholar Speaker Series: Ariana Mangual Figueroa

To enrich Penn GSE’s ongoing dialogues around this year’s One Book, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas, national scholars have been invited to share their insightful research. Talks will center on the intersectionality of the book’s themes and our GSE academic divisions (HDQM, POLS, ELX, LTL). Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to attend.

Ariana Mangual Figueroa is an associate professor in urban education and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. For the last five years, she has served as a co-principal investigator of the CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education. Her forthcoming book, Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School, will be published in April 2024.