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2024 Latine Heritage Month Speaker: Jennifer De Leon

Last week, we were thrilled to welcome novelist, writer, and professor Jennifer De Leon as our Latine Heritage Month Assembly speaker!

Jennifer is the award-winning author of the YA novels Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing, which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. Jenn is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology. As an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State University and faculty member for the Newport MFA Program at Salve Regina University, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is also a contributor on NPR. Jenn is the founder of Story Bridge, LLC, which aims to bring people together from all walks of life to shape, share, and hear each other’s unique stories.

Jenn spoke about her background and career, the importance of representation in literature, and the power of storytelling, in addition to sharing an excerpt from one of her novels, Don't Ask Me Where I'm From. Thank you, Jenn, for visiting the Hill and sharing your talents and perspectives with our students!

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