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 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 ...

, she has written for

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and ''El Diario'', and

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. Alcantara was employed at

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's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, leaving in August 2017.

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''La Galeria'' magazine
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