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Brite Divinity School will sponsor lecture on Latina activists March 10



Dr. Milagros Peña

Fort Worth, TX

3/2/2009

Dr. Milagros Peña will discuss “A Question of Justice: the U.S.-Mexican Border, Migration and Women’s Mobilization” at a free, public lecture March 10 at 7 p.m. in the TCU’s Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center, 2820 Stadium Drive. She is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Sponsor of the event is the Center for Latino/a Church Studies at Brite Divinity School. For more information, call 817-257-7575 or go to www.brite.tcu.edu.

Dr. Peña is author of Latina Activists Across Borders: Grassroots Women’s Organizing in Mexico and Texas. The book received the 2008 Distinguished Book Award from the Latino/a section of the American Sociological Association.