Frances Negron-Muntaner, Director

Email fn2103@columbia.edu
Phone (212) 854-0195
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Leon Bynum, Assistant Director

Email ljb39@columbia.edu
Phone (212) 854-0510

Lee comes to CSER with an unusual combination of skills and experiences. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from Columbia University, where he earned his BA in African American Studies with a concentration in History. In addition to his academic work in ethnic studies, Lee is successful playwright and composer who has had ten plays and operas produced all over the United States. He serves on the boards of the Harmony Theatre Company, a successful Manhattan non-profit theatre company which he cofounded, and Diaspora Community Services, an advocacy group the promotes human rights, gender equality, and health-care access for low-income and immigrant families in Central Brooklyn. Lee looks forward to the publication of his forthcoming article on Malcolm X in "Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society."

Theresa Hernandez, Administrative Assistant

Email teh2006@columbia.edu
Phone (212) 854-0507

Theresa, who is originally from San Francisco, earned her B.A. in Comparative Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Sociology at Columbia University in 2006. First as a student, then work-study and now as the Administrative Assistant, she has made CSER her home for the past seven years and counting. Theresa's academic and political interests focus on the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality; the structural inequalities they produce; and the various ways that social justice movements have responded. Theresa has been interrogating these issues over the years by helping to organize teach-ins, conferences and other community building functions. She also co-produced a short documentary, Queer Geography: Mapping Our Identities, which was screened at the 2002 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and is currently distributed by Frameline.