Sara Perez, Author at The Emory Wheel

How student advocates changed the name of a course about Mexico’s history

Posted by Sara Perez | Sep 28, 2021

As the Latinx community in America continues to suffer from discrimination and racism, the original title of a fall 2021 history course by Associate Professor Yanna Yannakakis’ sparked intense backlash among Emory’s Latinx...

Latin America deserves more than U.S. interventionism

Posted by Sara Perez | Jul 31, 2021

Rather than concocting an immediate plan to help a troubled region, Biden and Harris’ current plan to “heal” Central America and slow down immigration oozes U.S. interventionism because of its underlying savior complex.

America’s Cataclysmic Interventionism Must End

Posted by Sara Perez | Jan 27, 2021

Following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, all I saw highlighted on social media was “this is not...

Latin America’s Femicide Crisis Demands Attention

Posted by Sara Perez | Jan 18, 2021

On Jan. 1, in post-new year fashion, I was scrolling through a Facebook feed inundated with resolution posts until I came across an article from a Nicaraguan news outlet that reported the first femicide in 2021 had already...

It’s Time to Talk About Climate Inequality

Posted by Sara Perez | Dec 4, 2020

As Central America reels from the detrimental impacts of the pandemic, two hurricanes, Eta and Iota, wreaked havoc in the region in the span of two weeks. The two storms predominantly affected Indigenous communities and people...