Full Name
Roosbelinda Cardenas
Job Title
Assistant Professor
Company
John Jay College
Speaker Bio
Roosbelinda Cárdenas is an assistant professor in anthropology at John Jay. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in identity and rights for Afro-descendants in Latin America. Her research covers race, racism, social movements, displacement, and human rights. She adopts an engaged ethnographic approach to teaching, emphasizing knowledge production and activism intersections.