Ejima Baker, co-chair
Anamaría Flores, co-chair
Richard Perez, co-chair

Many, many thanks to those whose financial contributions helped make this event possible:

The Good Neighbor Committee of the Ford Foundation

The Africana Studies Group of the Graduate Center; Baruch College’s Latin American Studies Department; The Doctoral Students Council; The Graduate Center’s Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity Program; and Dr. James de Jongh and The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean

Special thanks to Stephanie Werkema de Flores for designing our flier and the cover image of our program; to Jamila Brathwaite for putting the program together; and to our photographer, Rodolfo Leyton.

Thanks also to The Graduate Center’s Continuing Education Office for handling registration and to Facilities, Room Reservations, and the folks in Audio Visual.

Special thanks to Sarah Foudy and Dr. Jerry Carlson of CUNY TV for airing interviews with Ejima Baker, Miriam Machado-Cooper, Ariel Fernandez, and Anamaría Flores on “Nueva York” on 4 May at 10:00am, 4:00pm, and 10:00pm, and for filming parts of the conference.

And finally, many thanks to all our volunteers.

Gracias….desde Anamaría Flores

I want to firstly thank the Good Neighbor Committee of the Ford Foundation for funding our conference; it would have been impossible to pull off without that grant.

Secondly I want to say muchas, muchas gracias to my co-chair, and sister, Ejima Baker, for the endless hours of work that she put into making the conference a success and for always offering me encouragement and support. This conference could not and would not have happened without her efforts! La lucha sigue siempre, mujer.

I wish to extend special thanks to my sister, Stephanie Werkema, for the artwork that graces our flier and the cover of the program and for her confidence in me and my work.

I also want to thank Sarah Foudy of CUNY TV for her generosity and for all her hard work.

Finally, I want to thank Jamila Brathwaite of IRIDAC, my D-town sister, for putting the program together, ordering the supplies, paying the bills, printing the posters, and for being the rock upon which we built the conference.

Gracias…..desde Ejima Baker

I want to that all of the people in my life who supported me throughout this conference: particularly, my tireless and dedicated sister and amiga, Anamaría; the women in my life who made me who I am: Ingrid, Ejae, Shari, and everyone else who I am proud to call my family; my colleagues at the GC who helped to flesh out this idea; Anthony, for reading, sorting, listening, and being there always; and Renée Rose at the Ford Foundation without whose guidance and support, I would have been lost. A special thank you to the IRADAC office (Jamila, Gloria, Prof DeJongh), Sarah of CUNY TV, and the roundtable participants.