# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Celebrating Arlene Torres: Honoring a Legacy of Education
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us in celebrating the legacy of retiring Hunter College AFPRL Professor, Dr. Arlene Torres.About this EventJoin us in celebrating Dr. Arlene Torres, retiring associate professor in Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (AFPRL) at Hunter College. Dr. Torres has had a rich career and leaves behind a lasting legacy.Before her time in the AFPRL department at Hunter College, she served as University Dean of Recruitment and Diversity and the Director of the Chancellor’s Latino Faculty Initiative in Academic Affairs in the CUNY Central Administration. Dr. Torres is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in Caribbean, Latina/Latino and Latin American Studies. Early on her scholarly work on the Americas and the Caribbean archipelago prompted her to study the impact of social inequality structurally and relationally over the long durée of history. Her groundbreaking edited volume, Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Norman E. Whitten, Jr.), is widely regarded in Latin American and Latinx Studies. Dr. Torres has mentored dozens of undergraduate and graduate students, in addition to junior and midcareer faculty, throughout the country.Image Credit: Photograph of Arlene TorresThis event is made possible thanks to the generous support of the New York City Council.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/celebrating-arlene-torres-honoring-a-legacy-of-education/100001981749521165
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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
- **lat**: 40.7671206
- **long**: -73.96767919999999
- **full address**: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Celebrating Arlene Torres: Honoring a Legacy of Education being held?
  - **A:** Celebrating Arlene Torres: Honoring a Legacy of Education takes place on Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Celebrating Arlene Torres: Honoring a Legacy of Education?
  - **A:** Celebrating Arlene Torres: Honoring a Legacy of Education is organized by Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

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