Please join us for the opening of the exhibit Drexel Cartoneras: Memorias al Cartón! The event will include a reception and panel discussion about the Cartonera publishing movement and how writing and storytelling can be used to foster community and preserve and share cultural heritage.  

Panelists include students from Performing Spanish: Language Proficiency through the Arts (Spanish 410), as well as Drexel faculty and staff, and members of the Philadelphia community.

Following the program, guests are invited to view the exhibit in the W. W. Hagerty Library atrium.

Panelists:

• Reyna Casarez, Community Leader, Artist, & Announcer and Producer of "Talent and Community" on Philatinos Radio
• Steve Vasquez Dolph, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor & Associate Dean of Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Department of Global Studies & Modern Languages, Drexel University, College of Arts & Sciences
• Tasneem Siddique, enrolled in Spanish 410, ‘25
• Jennifer Thorndike-Gonzales, PhD, Associate Director, Drexel University, Student Center for Diversity & Inclusion
• Dayana Velasco, BS, ‘22, and enrolled graduate student, Department of Communications, Media & Journalism Kean University
• Caroline Vitkovitsky, enrolled in Spanish 410, ‘24

Moderator:

• Celeste Dolores Mann, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Global Studies & Modern Languages, Drexel University, College of Arts & Sciences