Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda quoted in Voice of San Diego article “Everything You Need to Know About the Migrant Caravan, and Those That Came Before.”

Voice of San Diego

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Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 is quoted in La Opinión article “‘Que tristeza siento al ver a mis paisanos.'”

La Opinión

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Univision interviews Pitzer professor and Honduras expert Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 about the migrant caravan heading north to the US

Univision

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Associate Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 named a “Honduran-American Author You Should Know” by Fierce

Fierce

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Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda provides expert commentary to Daily World’s article “Migrant caravan: Parents seeking asylum in US fear forcible separation from children”

Daily World

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Pitzer Professor and Alumna Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 Wins Diversity Teaching Award

Claremont, Calif. (March 8, 2018)—Pitzer College Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 was awarded a 2018 Claremont Colleges Diversity Teaching Award, which honors innovative educational activities and programs that address issues related to diversity and inclusion both inside and outside college classrooms. Portillo’s contributions to teaching and learning, along with those of Pomona College Professor Sara [Read More...]

March 8, 2018

Press Releases

Pitzer Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda Awarded Fulbright to Examine Motives for Migration in Honduras

Suyapa Portillo Villeda '96, assistant professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies.

Claremont, Calif. (June 8, 2017)—Pitzer College Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Research Fellowship to Honduras, where she will investigate narratives of migration from the point of view of Hondurans, focusing on the experiences of women and LGBTI youth. Portillo, assistant professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a transnational studies, will combine archival research with [Read More...]

June 8, 2017

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Pitzer Professor Honored for LGBTI Advocacy Work in Central America

Claremont, Calif. (June 17, 2016)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 was recognized for her LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) advocacy work with the Handkerchief “Color of Freedom” award from Cattrachas, a Central American nonprofit LGBTI organization. Portillo Villeda, who teaches Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer, is the author of Honduras LGBT [Read More...]

June 17, 2016

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Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda Elected to Modern Language Association Executive Committee

Claremont, Calif. (January 25, 2016)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies Suyapa Portillo Villeda has been elected to the executive committee for the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) Hemispheric American Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Her five-year term on the committee began on January 11. The Modern Language Association is a [Read More...]

January 25, 2016

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Pitzer Professor Invited to White House for Meeting with LGBTQ People of Color Leaders

Claremont, Calif. (June 22, 2015)—The White House hosted national leaders of LGBTQ people of color in May for off-the-record talks about the future of their communities. One of the select leaders was Suyapa Portillo ’96, assistant professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a transnational studies at Pitzer College. “The goal of the conference was for LGBTQ people of color [Read More...]

June 22, 2015