Leslie C. Sotomayor II

Leslie C. Sotomayor is an artist, curator, and professor in Art Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Sotomayor focuses on Gloria Anzaldua's theory of conocimiento and autohistoria-teoria - a feminist writing practice of theorizing one's experiences as transformative acts - to guide her teaching methodology and create a curriculum for empowerment and transformation in curating educational spaces that decolonize White hegemonic academic canons.