Sofia Quintero
Bio:
Sofia Quintero is a Gen-X Afro-Latina screenwriter and novelist. Raised in a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx, the self-proclaimed “Ivy League homegirl” graduated from Columbia University and began her first career as a policy analyst and advocate working for various nonprofit organizations and government agencies including the Vera Institute of Justice and the Hispanic AIDS Forum. After years of working on diverse policy issues, Sofia turned to cultural work with the intention to meet audiences where they are yet take them someplace better.
Our community must retake its rightful place as the driving force behind what Latinx content prevails
Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.
