Rima Brusi
Escritora, antropóloga y educadora, Rima Brusi Gil de La Madrid nació y creció en Puerto Rico. Escribe crónica literaria y ensayo, es columnista y autora de cuatro libros. Actualmente es catedrática en el Colegio de Honores de Northern Arizona University.
Writer, anthropologist and educator, Rima Brusi Gil de La Madrid was born in Puerto Rico. She writes literary and journalistic non-fiction and is the author of five books. She is currently a professor at Northern Arizona University's Honors College.
PARPADEANDO (2008-presente) es mi blog y página personal donde miro dos veces lo ajeno y lo cotidiano, desde el aquí y el ahora.
Dentro de lo que escribo encontrarás un poco de todo, sea creative non-fiction, advocacy or journalistic pieces, informes (reports) y artículos académicos.
I enjoy engaging in and teaching public speaking in various formats: lectures,radio, TV and social media. I like using storytelling techniques to discuss topics such as educational equity and inequality, gentrification, displacement, disaster profiteering, and other forms of structural violence that occur in the context of colonialism and the debt economy. I also like storytelling, period. :)
Some of the public or non-profit organizations I've been lucky to support and collaborate with throughout the years and that have directly informed my work.
About Rima
Rima Brusi-Gil de Lamadrid, PhD (@RimaBrusi) nació en Puerto Rico. Es escritora, antropóloga y educadora. Escribe crónica literaria y ensayo, es columnista en 80grados y Claridad, y es autora de cuatro libros: Mi tecato favorito y otras crónicas (EEE, 2011), Entre la bicha y la pared (ICP, 2019), Fantasmas (EEE, 2019, premio PEN 2020) y Chulos de la pobreza (EEE, 2021). Es además experta en el tema de desigualdad educativa y geográfica, colabora regularmente con grupos y organizaciones enfocadas en justicia social y educativa y habla, presenta y publica sobre estos temas en conferencias y revistas académicas y en medios diversos, incluyendo NPR,Univisión y The Nation. Fue profesora en la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez, co-fundadora y directora del Centro Universitario para el Acceso (CUA), antropóloga aplicada en The Education Trust y distinguished lecturer en antropología y escritora residente en el Centro de Derechos Humanos de Lehman College-CUNY. Actualmente trabaja como profesora en la facultad de Honores de Northern Arizona University y vive en Flagstaff con su esposo JL, con quien comparte vida, hijes, mascotas y el recuerdo de un mar distante que llaman "casa."
Rima Brusi-Gil de Lamadrid, PhD (@RimaBrusi) was born in Puerto Rico. She is a writer, anthropologist, and educator. She writes literary non-fiction, is a columnist for 80grados and Claridad, and is the author of four books: Mi tecato favorito y otras crónicas (EEE, 2011), Entre la bicha y la pared (ICP, 2019), Fantasmas (EEE, 2019, premio PEN 2020) y Chulos de la pobreza (EEE, 2021). Rima is also an expert on the topic of educational and geographic inequality, regularly collaborates with groups and organizations focused on social and educational justice, and speaks, presents, and publishes on these topics at conferences, academic journals, and various media, including NPR, Univision, and The Nation. She was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, co-founder and director of the University Center for Access (CUA), an applied anthropologist at The Education Trust, and a distinguished lecturer in anthropology and writer-in-residence at the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies in CUNY's Lehman College. She is a Professor at Northern Arizona University's Honors College and shares life, children, joys, pets, and the dream of a distant ocean with her husband, JL.
