The Trouble with Unity

I was honored to learn that the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession had awarded me the 2022 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Latino/a Junior Faculty in Political Science. Sosa-Riddell, the first Latina to earn a doctorate in political science, has long been an inspiration to me and my colleagues.

And lovely to see, in Political Science Now's article, University of the District of Columbia assistant professor Jasmine Noelle Yarish's generous words: “Like Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, Dr. Beltrán’s commitment to listening to and supporting the next generation is about deepening the democratic project of abolition—that is, collective liberation.”