Cristina Verán
Bio:
Cristina Verán is an international Indigenous Peoples’ issues specialist consultant, researcher, curator, educator, and media maker. A longtime United Nations correspondent, she was a founding member of the UN Indigenous Media Network. She is also a former APLP Fellow-In-Residence at the East-West Center, a thinktank established by the U.S. Congress to promote cooperation, collaboration, and diplomacy with Asian and Pacific Island nations. She is originally from Peru.
As the United States struggles to reaffirm its raison d'être, can the prospect of transformative change in a re-invigorated South American body politic become a new beacon for democracy?
Our reclaimed pride in indigenous heritage is an opportunity for Latin American immigrants and U.S. First People to work as allies.
In Rural Tamil Nadu, Child Marriage Was Already Rampant. Then Came the Pandemic.
