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    <Title>Biosafety Cabinet certifications</Title>
    <Tagline>August 6th 2025</Tagline>
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    <Summary>Hi all,    Steris will be out to do biosafety cabinet certifications tomorrow. While most are in the vivarium, not all are. Please make a note of this.        MakeModel #Serial #MCI #Class...</Summary>
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    <Title>State MetLife's August Retirement Webinar</Title>
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    <Title>ANTH Course Highlight</Title>
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    <Title>Building Bridges Across Difference: A Dialogue for Every Day</Title>
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  <Title>Nurturing peace through daily acts, collaborative research with Afro-Colombian women in Colombia&#8217;s Pacific Northwest</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>Over 10 years ago, <a href="https://mlli.umbc.edu/dr-tania-lizarazo/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Tania Lizarazo</strong></a> met with Justa Mena Córdoba in Chocó, Colombia. Before Mena Córdoba passed away, Lizarazo promised to tell her story as one of the founding commissioners of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/generococomacia/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Gender Commission of COCOMACIA</a>, Colombia’s largest Afro-Colombian peasants’ association.</p>
    
    
    
    <p>With her new book, <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088346" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Chocó, Colombia</em></a> (University of Illinois Press, 2024), Lizarazo fulfills that promise. “It means a lot to me to publish this book as this was my first collaborative research project,” says Lizarazo, associate professor of modern languages, linguistics, and intercultural communication and global studies. “I promised Justa that I would do my best to share her story and legacy of peace-building amidst decades of ongoing violence by supporting women’s daily work.”</p>
    
    
    
    <img width="1200" height="900" src="https://umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tania-Lizarazo-with-members-of-COCOMACIA-IMG_1115-1200x900.jpeg" alt="Justa and two other Afro-Colombian women gather for a photo with Tania Lizarazo in Chocó Colombia in a field with grass behind them" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;">Lizarazo (red shirt) with members of the Gender Commission COCOMACIA. (Image courtesy of Lizarazo)
    
    
    
    <p>Lizarazo’s interest in Latin American cultural studies and transnational feminist research led her to explore the Gender Commission of COCOMACIA. Curious to learn more, Lizarazo reached out to Mena Córdoba. She invited Lizarazo to her home and the headquarters of the commission, both in Chocó, located in the northwest, bordering Panama and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and where the largest Afro-Colombian community in the country lives. For over a decade, Mena Córdoba served as Lizarazo’s friend, mentor, and fellow researcher.</p>
    
    
    
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    <p>Many scholars, says Lizarazo, both Colombian like herself, and foreign, research the Colombian Pacific and use ethnography as their main research approach. She notes that while she uses ethnography, her work also places the community on equal footing with researchers. The book documents the collaboration between Lizarazo and the Afro-Colombian women of the Gender Commission. The team used <a href="https://www.mujerespacificas.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">digital storytelling tools</a> to document the commission’s daily efforts to build networks and share resources that strengthen their families, schools, jobs, and communities. </p>
    
    
    
    <img width="1200" height="900" src="https://umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_1321-1200x900.jpeg" alt="One Afro-Colombian in Chocó woman sits with Tania Lizarazo a room fitted with microphones recording a conversation " style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;">Tania Lizarazo (l) with a member of the Gender Commission of COCOMACIA at the community radio station. (Image courtesy of Lizarazo)
    
    
    
    <p>“Sometimes we highlight protests but ignore the daily mundane actions that build over time and make collective survival possible. This is the case for Black women in the Colombian Pacific,” explains Lizarazo for <a href="https://theconversation.com/peace-has-long-been-elusive-in-rural-colombia-black-womens-community-groups-try-to-bring-it-closer-each-day-219550" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>The Conversation</em></a>. “Their solidarity is a reminder that peace and justice are a collaborative, everyday effort. As Justa told me in 2012: “One cannot change the world by herself.”</p>
    
    
    
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    <p><em>Learn more about Lizarazo’s collaboration with fellow UMBC faculty María Célleri, Yolanda Valencia, and Thania Muñoz to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DMvs3d_TTy4/?igsh=azN1OHBydno4djQ3" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">document the experiences of Latinx communities </a>with Latinx communities in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.</em></p>
    
    
    
    <p><em>Visit the Walters Art Museum’s new “</em><a href="https://thewalters.org/exhibitions/latinoamericano/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>Latin American Art/ Arte Latinoamericano</em></a><em>” exhibit, where Lizarazo contributed her expertise in Colombian history.</em></p></div>
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