The Co-Chairs

Anamaría Flores
Anamariaflower@aol.com

Detroit born and Bronx based, Anamaría Flores is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the Graduate and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and is currently an adjunct professor of English at Queens College and Borough of Manhattan Community College where she teaches Composition and Literature of the Americas.

Ejima Baker
ejimabaker@hotmail.com

Ejima Baker is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She is a complete Caribeña, who has lived in both the English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and currently resides in New York City.

An academic and singer/songwriter, Miss Baker currently teaches popular Caribbean music courses at John Jay College and has also taught the undergraduate courses “Popular Caribbean Music” and “Caribbean Music, Race, and Sex” at other institutions.

Her research focuses on manifestations of race and gender in Caribbean popular musics. She has presented papers at major conferences such as the Feminist Theory and Music Conference and the CUNY African-American Network Work in Progress at CUNY on the African Diaspora Conference. Her work has been published in Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies edited by Ellie Hisama and Evan Rapport.

Richard Perez