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Emma Velez is a Chicanx Okie, decolonial feminist philosopher, and storyteller currently serving as an Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. They are interested in the role of social imaginaries in shaping and reimagining ethical commitments and geopolitical responses to racialized and gendered colonial violence, as well as politics of knowledge production. Their scholarship centers on the philosophical genealogies of lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities, with a strong emphasis on storytelling and speculative theorizing, which bridges conversations between philosophy, ethnic studies, and feminist theory. Currently, Emma is working on a book project titled 'Orienting Historias: Decolonial Latinx Feminism'.
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