Door-to-Door Facilitator Yazmín Peña served as Managing Editor for Revista de la Academia, and is the co-editor of Carlitos Magazine: Start the Change as well as the Queer Convention chapbook. She recently received her MFA from City College, and is currently working on Challenge #18 from her "30 Challenges Before Hitting 30" List—learn to play the guitar. A Brooklyn resident for the last fourteen years, she still misses her native Dominican Republic and proudly holds the title of “Best Aunt, Ever.”
Reflections of Self
Posted on June 25, 2012, from Thoreau, New Mexico.
The Work of Preservation
Posted on June 5, 2012, from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Let’s go to the museum
Ladies in tennis shoes
The Meaning of Success
The ballad of Everet and Barbara
“Because of you.”
Posted on December 19, 2011, from Salinas, California.
What’s your saddest memory?
Posted on September 19, 2011, from Charlotte, North Carolina.
What’s a Senior, Anyway?
The Mississippi Story
Posted on April 16, 2011, from Jackson, Mississippi.
Community with heart
El Puente Scholars in Action
How can art change anything at all?
Posted on December 14, 2010, from New York City, New York.
“What can I tell you…?”
Posted on August 3, 2010, from San Diego, California.
Fortune Favors the Brave
Posted on July 2, 2010, from New York City, New York.
Everyday Is a Gift
Making After School Cool
Posted on June 14, 2010, from Washington, District of Columbia.
Around El Barrio
Posted on March 15, 2010, from New York City, New York.