Casa Hispanica, Columbia University. This event will take place in person at the Casa Hispanica and virtually over Zoom.
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Justice-in-Education Initiative
Division of Narrative Medicine
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
The short-subject documentary — directed by Emma Francis-Snyder and produced by Market Road Films’ Tony Gerber — chronicles the 12 historic hours in 1970 when 50 members of the Young Lords Party stormed the dilapidated Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and made their cries for health justice known to the world. The Lincoln Hospital takeover resulted in the Patient Bill of Rights, which marks the 50th anniversary of its adoption next year. And though the Young Lords did not achieve its goal of universal healthcare, the bill is still the basis of care to this day.
Emma Francis-Snyder is a New York based activist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Takeover, is shortlisted for an Academy Award. She was one of ten chosen as Vimeo’s Best New Creator in 2021. Takeover is part of the 2021 New York Times OpDoc series, was featured as a Vimeo Staff Pick, and shortlisted for the IDA and Cinema Eye awards. She is a 2020 Ford Foundation: Just Films and Open Society Foundation grantee. In 2012 Emma, and co-director, Sara Beth Curtis, received the Rosen Fellowship through CUNY Brooklyn College and traveled to Santiago, Chile, and Montreal, Quebec to film the simultaneous student movements. She is the co-producer of the film, Straight/Curve, and the associate producer of Yoruba aRichen’s award-winning I Rise series.
Carlos Ivan Calaff is a Research Analyst and Reentry Coordinator at the Center for Justice and Justice-in-Education Program at Columbia University. In 2018 he was released from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. He is currently studying at the School for Professional Studies at Columbia University. He is a proud Puerto Rican father of two boys, a lifelong Bronx native, an unapologetic Knicks fan, and a musician.
Adriana María Garriga-López is an anthropologist and multidisciplinary artist. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Garriga-López is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College Michigan and Associate Faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2010), as well as Master of Philosophy (2006) and Master of Arts (2003) degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University in New York, and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Literature from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2001). Garriga-Lopez’s research has been published in: American Medical Association Ethics Journal; Sinister Wisdom; Human Organization; Critical Public Health; Scholar & Feminist Online; Small Axe; Shima: A Journal of Island Studies; Social Anthropology; the International Journal of Infectious Disease; and New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, among others. Adriana is also a poet, performance artist, painter, and soprano. Her creative work has appeared in the (2019) anthology (edited by Raquel Salas Rivera), as well as in: Tripwire: Journal of Poetics; Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine; The New Engagement; Cruce; 80 Grados; Sargasso; Ad Hoc; African Writing; The Columbia Review; Beyond Polarities; and Piso 13. You can keep up with her on Twitter by following @anthrorican.
