Council of Dominican Educators

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Council of Dominican Educators

The founding members of the Council of Dominican Educators established the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute [1] in 1992.

Luis Álvarez-López, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Puerto Rican and Latin American Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York

Dr. Luis Alvarez-Lopez is an assistant professor in the Puerto Rican and Latin American Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He teaches in the areas of Race and Ethnicity in the Unites States, Caribbean History, Latin American History, and History of the Dominican Republic. Before joining the faculty at John Jay College, he was a Union Organizer at Local 1199, National Health and Human Service Union, SEIU. He also worked for many years at The City University as adjunct instructor, teaching at City College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and Hostos Community College of New York. Dr. Alvarez is the author of several books including Dominación Colonial y Guerra Popular 1861-1865 (La Anexión y la Restauración en la Historia Dominicana) and Estado y Sociedad Durante la Dictadura de Trujillo. His other publications include a research monograph Dominican Resources and Research Questions published by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Dr. Álvarez is a graduate of the Interamerican University in Puerto Rico, and earned an M.A. in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and a Ph.D. in History from New York University.

Ana García Reyes, M.A. Special Assistant to the President for Community Relations, Director of International Programs, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College[2], The City University of New York

Ana García Reyes is special assistant to the president and director of international programs at Eugenio María de Hostos Community College. She serves as principal investigator of research projects linked with international academic exchanges. For more than twelve years, she has received grant awards for academic exchange/study abroad programs from various agencies, including The State Department of Education, CUNY Caribbean Exchange, and the CUNY Study/Travel Opportunities for CUNY Students Grants. She has experience in evaluating and training personnel, and has established procedures for the development, progress, evaluation and reporting mechanism of grant funded projects. García Reyes has served on numerous boards at the city, state, and national level. In 2001-2002, she was president of the Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR), the first and only national Dominican American organization in the United States. She is also active in external and professional organizations, including The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, as founding and advisory board member; Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation as board member; New York City Youth Board as board member appointed by the Mayor of the City in 1995; and the New York State Committee on Dominican Heritage Celebrations. Garcia Reyes holds a B.A. from and an M.A. from The City College of New York.

Franklin Gutierrez, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Literature, Coordinator of the Spanish Program, Department of Foreign Languages York College, The City University of New York

Dr. Franklin Gutiérrez's work comprises literary research monographs, essays, narratives and poems. His research on literature, critical essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in literary supplements, academic journals, and anthologies in the Dominican Republic and other countries. In 2000, Dr. Gutiérrez’s book Enriquillo: radiografía de un héroe galvaniano, based on his doctoral dissertation, received the National Essay Award bestowed by the Secretariat of State for Education and Culture of the Dominican Republic. He is also the author of Diccionario de la Literatura Dominicana, Bibliográfico y Terminológico; Antología Histórica de la poesía dominicana del s. XX (1912-1995)p; and Literatura Dominicana en los Estados Unidos. Presencia Temprana 1900-1950 (in collaboration with Dr. Daisy Cocco De Filippis); Evas Terrenales. Bio-bibliografías de 150 autoras dominicanas, and Palabras de Ida y Vuelta. Ensayos Literarios, among others. He has a B.A. in Education and Letters from Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from The City University of New York.

Ramona Hernández, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, The City College of New York, Director, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City University of New York

Dr. Ramona Hernández is professor of sociology and director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York. She is a specialist in Dominican immigration and the status of Dominican workers in the U.S. economy. An invited lecturer, keynote speaker, consultant, editorial board member, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards, she is the author of the seminal text The Mobility of Workers under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States, 2002, named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice in 2003. Dr. Hernández co-authored two other important contributions to the field Dominican Americans (1998) and Building Strategic Partnerships for Development: Dominican Republic–New York State (2004). She co-edited Desde la orilla: hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos (2004), among other publications and reports. Dr. Hernández earned her Bachelors degree in Latin American History at Lehman College in 1979 before completing a Masters at New York University in 1983, a second Masters and the Ph.D. in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate School in 1995 and 1997.

Fausto de la Rosa Assistant Principal, Walton High School, The Bronx, New York City

Between 2002 and 2005 he was Interim Acting Assistant Principal at Taft High School and Assistant Principal at the High School for Medical Science, also in The Bronx. Mr. De la Rosa is a graduate from The City College-CUNY, and he holds an M.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Education. Prior to that he was a Science Teacher at Park West High School and a Mathematics Teacher at the Health Careers and Sciences high School. Mr. De La Rosa has also been Counselor at the Dominican Republic’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., as well as Minister Counselor of the Dominican Republic’s Mission to the United Nations. Since 2004 he has been an education advisor to the State Secretary of Education of the Dominican Republic. In1990-1991 Mr. De La Rosa was Day Student Government President at The City College of New York, his alma mater. In 1991 and while at The City College, with the support of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, he founded the LAESA Community Outreach Program, a program that for 10 years has provided ESL classes to Upper Manhattan residents as well as GED classes to high school dropouts. Mr. De La Rosa is currently pursuing a Master Degree in School Administration.

Nelson Reynoso, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Student Development, Bronx Community College, The City University of New York

Since 2000, Dr. Reynoso has served as Director of Counseling at Bronx Community College. He earned his doctoral degree in Higher Education at New York University. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the field of Psychology at The City College of New York. As part of his doctoral thesis research, Dr. Reynoso developed a resiliency model which he presented at the 49th Conference of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges held in Florida in 2007.He has also worked with outpatient drug treatment programs providing intensive clinical counseling through individual, family, and group therapy, as well as developing client-tailored projects for community-based organizations. Dr. Reynoso is currently conducting the Dominican Oral History Project, in collaboration with Dr. Sharon Utakis. He was recently appointed by the President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández Reyna, to the Higher Education Committee of the Presidential Advisory Council for Dominicans Abroad, a body that provides policy advise to the Dominican President and promotes collaborative initiatives between Dominicans living abroad and their country of origin.

Anthony Stevens-Acevedo Assistant Director, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York

Since 2004, Assistant Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College. He holds an M.A. Degree in History from The City College of New York-CUNY, and a B.A. in History of The Americas from the University of Seville, Spain. Mr. Stevens-Acevedo was a Social Studies Teacher at Theodore Roosevelt High School, Bronx, New York, in 1985-1990, and at Gregorio Luperón High School, in 1995-2003. He was a Member of Community School Board 6, in Washington Heights-Inwood, New York City, in 1992-1994, and prior to that he was a Member of Community Planning Board 12, encompassing the same neighborhoods. In 1992-1995 he was a staff member at New York City Council’s District 10 office (Washington Heights-Inwood-Marble Hill), led by then-New York City Councilman Guillermo Linares. Besides writing opinion-columns for several newspapers, Mr. Stevens-Acevedo has been engaged in a years-long research project on early colonial Dominican history. He has published scholarly articles and translations on the history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century La Española. He is currently working on a monograph on sugar plantations of the same colony in the sixteenth century. For his historical work, in July 2007 he was appointed ‘foreign corresponding member’ of the Dominican Academy of History.

Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English, Director, Latino-Latin American Studies Program[3], Syracuse University

Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant is associate professor of English and director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University. He is the founding director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York. A renowned and prolific scholar in Caribbean Studies and Latino Studies, he has published a number of texts and articles including An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Caribbean Poetics (Cambridge University Press, 1997), The Challenges of Public Higher Education in the Hispanic Caribbean (Markus Wiener, 2004 [co-edited]), Desde la Orilla: hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos (Editora Manati & Ediciones Libreria La Trinitaria, 2004 [co-edited]), The Dominican Americans (Greenwood Press, 1998 [coauthored]), El retorno de las yolas (Manati & La Trinitaria, 1999), and Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. 4 (Arte Publico Press, 2002 [co-edited]). A senior editor for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and associate editor of Latino Studies, Dr. Torres-Saillant sits on the Board of Directors of the New York Council for the Humanities and the University of Houston’s Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. Dr. Torres-Saillant holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University.