Meet Your Instructor

LATI 180

Meet Your Instructor

Dr. Amy Kennemore  E-mail: akennemore@ucsd.edu Office Hours Virtual: Weds. 10am-12pm Sign-up to reserve a spot: https://calendly.com/akennemore-ucsd In person: Thurs. 11:30am- 12:30pm Gildred Latin American Studies, Rm. 5; Drop ins welcome!

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Hello and Welcome to LATI 180!

I'm Amy Kennemore and my pronouns are she/her/hers. I have a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where I was also born and raised. From 2014-2019, I lived and worked in Bolivia, where I collaborated with Indigenous legal activists and other autonomous collectives to analyze how state-led decolonization shaped longstanding struggles for self-determination.  My work is deeply collaborative—with local communities, with Indigenous legal activist intellectuals, with networks of autonomous collectives, and with students and academics with whom I’ve worked, learned, organized, and published.  Much of my teaching and research focuses on the important tradition of community education and Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a tool for policy innovation (most recently, the National Agenda against Racism and All Forms of Discrimination in Bolivia) and as a tool for liberatory education (currently alongside other volunteer coordinators for the Escuela Libre y Labritorio de Arte, or ELLA, a free school by and for migrant youth in Zona Centro, Tijuana). I also enjoy painting, planting, playing music, and listening to podcasts in my free time. 

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