Yolanda Valencia

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Writer and Teacher
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Yolanda Valencia is a feminist Mexican immigrant scholar, writer and teacher. In 2019, Dr. Valencia completed her PhD in geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. That same year, she joined UMBC as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental System. Drawing on transnational approaches, her work focuses on understanding how undocumented immigrants make a meaningful life in the midst of state-sponsored violence in the United States. Developing the concepts of Relational life and legal death, Dr. Valencia is currently working on two journal articles and a book proposal.

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