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Screening of "Maestra"

Maestra, a documentary film by Catherine Murphy
Maestra, a documentary film by Catherine Murphy

Screening of "Maestra"

Monday, April 27, 2015
7:00pm
CERAS Learning Hall

a documentary film by Catherine Murphy

MAESTRA explores the personal testimonies of the young women who taught literacy in rural communities across Cuba during the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961, when 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. Join MAESTRA director and producer Catherine Murphy, a San Francisco-based filmmaker who has spent much of the last twenty years working in Latin America, in a post-screening discussion facilitated by Martin Carnoy, Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Jeff Chang, Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford.

Event Details


Sponsor 
Sponsored by the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, with co-sponsorship from the Graduate School of Education, the Education and Society Theme House, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.

Contact Information


Contact Name 
Rachel Meisels
Contact Phone 
(650) 723-3413
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