SNF Paideia in collaboration with the Critical Writing Program is very excited to host award-winning anti-racist educator Felicia Rose Chavez for a mini-residency at Penn.
For this student-facing event, Felicia Rose Chavez reads from and discusses her book The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, followed by a generous Q&A exchange.
About Felicia Rose Chavez
Felicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT. Felicia’s teaching career began in Chicago, where she served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a feminist webzine for high school students. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, a Riley Scholar Fellowship, and a Hadley Creatives Fellowship. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Felicia currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
For questions, please reach out to Sarah Ropp (sropp@upenn.edu) or Aurora MacRae-Crerar (aurorama@upenn.edu).
