Sylvanna M. Falcón, Founder and Director
Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
Sylvanna Falcón is an award-winning author and educator, and a former United Nations consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. She is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activists inside the United Nations, (University of Washington Press, 2016) which won the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association, and Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú: Contesting Tiers of Citizenship. University of Illinois Press, 2024).
She is the co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship [Rutgers University Press, 2021] and New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights [Routledge, 2011]. She has an upcoming book in Spanish titled “Voces de Mujeres Feministas Agentes de Cambio en Perú (Voices of Feminist Women Changemakers in Perú).
Professor Falcón is the recipient of the 2020 Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching in the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz and is the founder and director of UC Santa Cruz Human Rights Digital Investigations Lab.