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Amanda Alcantara

Dominican-American Afro-Latina writer and activist

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About Amanda Alcantara

Amanda Alcantara was an American novelist and blogger.

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.

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Rutgers University

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Dominican-American Afro-Latina writer and activist

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Amanda Alcantara was a novelist and blogger.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Amanda Alcantara

· Wikidata: Q26924771

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