Patricia
Pedroza is a
Mexican feminist
educator. She
was invited
by Keene State College
as visiting teacher in
August 1999. Currently
she is a Contract Lecture
in Multicultural Studies
who teaches
Spanish and Women's Studies
focusing on
Latin American, Latina/Chicana
perspective on feminism.
She
has a master's
degree from the School
for International
Training in Vermont and
has worked
as coordinator
and educator
in two important
feminist organizations
in Mexico : CIDHAL, A.C.
– Cuernavaca , Morelos
and CICAM, A.C, in Mexico
City . She was Spanish
teacher in Universal
Language Center in Cuernavaca
Morelos during
10 years before coming
to the USA . She has
presented feminist workshops
and performances in Argentina
, Guatemala
, Brazil
, Cuba and the United
States . She teaches
from Elementary Spanish
to Advanced Spanish,
Composition Spanish classes
and issues
around Latino population
in the USA . Patricia
has crossed the borders
of education between
the academic world and
the world of the artist
through the creation
of her own performance
pieces with
focus on global
feminism, spirituality,
sexuality, gender perspectives
and language
culture issues.
Currently she is doctoral
student in Union Institute
and University in Cincinnati
, OH . Her
research subject is the
relationship among Chicana
feminism and feminist
pedagogy. Her study concentration
is the teaching
of the Borderland Theory
created by the Chicana
Gloria Anzaldua and the
concept of Methodology
of the Oppressed and
Differential Consciousness
created by the Chicana
Chela Sandoval. |