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Amanda Alcantara
Amanda Alcantara is a Dominican-American writer and activist. She is the co-founder of ''La Galeria'', a magazine focused on Dominican women, and the author of the blog ''Radical Latina''. A graduate of Rutgers University, she has written for NY1 and ''El Diario'', and Feministing. Alcantara was employed at New York University's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, leaving in August 2017. References External links *''La Galeria'' magazine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Activists from New York (state) American people of Dominican Republic descent Rutgers University alumni American feminist writers American women bloggers American bloggers 21st-century American women writers {{US-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after Princeton University), and one of the nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.Stoeckel, Althea"Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56. In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a Private university, private liberal arts college but it has evolved int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
