MEMORIAS DE UNA VIDA DE OBRA (MEMORIES OF A LIFE OF WORK) - AN INTERVIEW WITH PANTOJA,ANTONIA

Antonia Pantoja is an important activist and educator in the Puerto Ri can community, both on the Island and in the United States. Pantoja we ts interviewed for the Harvard Educational Review by Wilhelmina Perry, an African American educator who has known Pantoja for the last twent y years as a colleague, friend, and coworker. This interview is part o f a dialogue around the significant issues of Pantoja's life that refl ect her life's work resisting the colonization of the Puerto Rican com munity. Through Pantoja's memories we are provided with the early and personal experiences that shaped her political and social commitments in her straggle against injustice. Pantoja's contribution to this Symp osium brings in a unique voice of a Puerto Rican woman committed to he r people.