Lorgia García Peña

García Peña grew up in the Dominican Republic until she was 12 years old, when she immigrated to the United States, joining her parents who had departed earlier for Trenton, New Jersey.

[4] Operating from Athens, Georgia, Freedom University provides tuition-free college instruction and various support networks for undocumented students.

She was appointed to a tenured position at Tufts University in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora and began teaching in fall 2021.

[10] Reviewing The Borders of Dominicanidad for The Latin Americanist, Sobeira Latorre said the book “offers a historically grounded, meticulously researched, and thoughtful analysis of how dominant narratives of Dominican racial and national identity developed, and the ways in which these narratives have historically excluded racialized people.”[16] The Spanish translation received national attention in the Dominican Republic and the Spanish speaking diaspora.

[17][18][19] García Peña has also published Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Haymarket Books 2022)[20] and Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022).

[21] García Peña has also written on social and political issues in The New York Times,[22] Harpers Bazaar,[23] The Boston Review,[24] NACLA,[25] Asterix,[26] Aperture Magazine,[27] among other outlets.