{"id":852,"date":"2020-03-25T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/?p=852"},"modified":"2022-09-11T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T17:26:41","slug":"learning-with-baltimores-immigrant-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/25\/learning-with-baltimores-immigrant-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with Baltimore’s Immigrant Communities: A Conversation with Tania Lizarazo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tania Lizarazo<\/b> is an Assistant Professor in Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communications at UMBC. Her research interests include digital storytelling, Latin American cultural studies, transnational feminisms and performance studies. Initially exposed to digital storytelling as a PhD student at UC Davis, Tania collaborated on \u201cSexualidades Campesinas\u201d<\/a> <\/span>\u00a0with LGBTQ members of farm working communities in California\u2019s Central Valley.\u00a0 Her article on the project<\/a> discusses ethics, collaboration and knowledge production in digital storytelling. She also applied digital storytelling in a project with the gender committee of a farmer\u2019s organization in the the Colombian Pacific in the “Mujeres Pacificas<\/a>” project.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tania is currently collaborating with other UMBC faculty on three ongoing digital storytelling projects: \u201cMoving Stories: Latinas in Baltimore<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHonest Conversations<\/a>\u201d\u00a0with Felipe Filomeno, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies;<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0and \u201cIntercultural Tales: Learning With Baltimore\u2019s Immigrant Communities<\/a>,\u201d a teaching project with Dr. Thania Mu\u00f1oz D., Assistant Professor in MLLI.\u00a0The goal of \u201cIntercultural Tales\u201d is to create opportunities for students to explore their own immigration stories while “Honest Conversations” promotes conversations on race and immigration between UMBC students and members of immigrant communities in Baltimore.\u00a0 Digital stories are used as a way of sharing some of these reflections beyond those involved in the dialogues.<\/p>\n

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I feel that research is usually associated with writing and especially when you’re thinking about doing structured research and only benefiting as a researcher from other people’s knowledge. I was interested in being able to give something back and I don’t think that it’s a very nice when you give something back like a journal article written in English to a community that doesn’t like read English. … So I thought this idea of creating audio visual pieces was like a good opportunity for collaboration and it was.<\/span>(TL)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n