Cherríe Moraga to Speak at SBCC

Cherríe Moraga, an internationally recognized poet, playwright, author and activist, will speak at Santa Barbara City College on November 7, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Garvin Theatre. Moraga will be available for a book signing from 5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

For over twenty years, Moraga served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. There she mentored a full generation of now published writers and professional playwrights who credit Moraga as one of their most influential teachers. In 2017, she began her tenure as a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Recently, Moraga completed a new literary memoir entitled: “Native County of the Heart” to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Spring 2019.

Moraga was one of the women featured in “Makers: Women Who Make America,” a 2013 PBS documentary about the struggle for women’s equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century.