Valeria Bula

Valeria is a junior in Berkeley College born in Barranquilla, Colombia, raised in Miami, FL. She is interested in exploring the intersection between immigration policy, queer border crossing, and queer placemaking in diasporas. This interest is informed by her own upbringing in the working class immigrant community of Hialeah, FL, the South Florida region being the geographic focus of this research due to its myriad of Latine communities. She is especially interested in understanding the impact the US's use of plenary power over immigration impacts/displaces queer/communities of color.

She has worked for over a year at Junta for Progressive Action, New Haven's oldest Latine-serving social services agency, where she assisted in providing the organization's case management services. At Yale, she is a student coordinator at La Casa Cultural, a Spanish interpreter for the Yale Interpreter Network, and a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow.

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