{"id":29778,"date":"2022-05-03T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/?p=29778"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:57:33","slug":"peace-award-recipient-dr-hilda-llorens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/2022\/05\/03\/peace-award-recipient-dr-hilda-llorens\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Award Recipient: Dr. Hilda Llor\u00e9ns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island (URI) congratulates Dr. Hilda Llor\u00e9ns for winning the first Peace Award for the URI faculty and staff. She won this award for her tireless work for human rights, environmental protection, nonviolence, and peace for the Afro-descendant communities in Puerto Rico and other places.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Llor\u00e9<\/span>ns at a community garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Llor\u00e9ns is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. She teaches cultural, linguistic, and environmental anthropology courses. Her research and writing are concerned with understanding how race, racialization, gender, socioeconomic class, social practices of power, and structural inequalities intersect in several socio-cultural and environmental life areas. Her research interests include cultural production and national representations, migration, diaspora, and the environment and <\/span>ecology in the Americas. She has written widely about these topics in academic journals and popular readership online and in print magazines. Her scholarly books include Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American <\/em><\/span>Century <\/span><\/em>(2014) and Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women <\/em><\/span>Building Environmental Justice <\/span><\/em>(2021). She is a co-author of the bilingual children’s book La Justicia Ambiental es para Ti y para M\u00ed \/ Environmental Justice is for You and Me<\/em> (2021).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Llor\u00e9<\/span>ns at a Youth Summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In her work as an engaged scholar, Prof. Llor\u00e9ns also is a contributing member of the Iniciativa de Eco Desarrollo de Bah\u00eda de Jobos (IDEBAJO), a grassroots organization in Puerto Rico’s Jobos Bay, and has focused on supporting community solar power initiatives, environmental and climate justice, and youth education and empowerment. She advocated and realized grants for electricity and clean water for the community. In addition, Dr. Llor\u00e9ns volunteers with the community food gardens and environmental justice-themed summer camps for children of<\/span><\/p>\n

affected communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Llorens at the Convivencia Ambiental youth summer camp in 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We applaud Dr. Llor\u00e9ns for her exemplary outreach and services toward human rights, nonviolence, and peace for the Afro-descendant communities in Puerto Rico and other places. Congratulations, and thank you, Dr. Llor\u00e9ns! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island (URI) congratulates Dr. Hilda Llor\u00e9ns for winning the first Peace Award for the URI faculty and staff. She won this award for her tireless work for human rights, environmental protection, nonviolence, and peace for the Afro-descendant communities in Puerto Rico and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4615,"featured_media":29802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29808,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778\/revisions\/29808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}