Aurora Levins Morales
| Aurora Levins Morales | |
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February 24, 1954 Maricao, Puerto Rico |
| Education |
Franconia College Mills College Union Institute & University |
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Aurora Levins Morales (born February 24, 1954) is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.
Levins Morales was born February 24, 1954 in Indiera Baja, Maricao, Puerto Rico. Her mother, Rosario Morales, was a Harlem-born Puerto Rican writer. Her father, Richard Levins, who is of Ukrainian Jewish heritage, born in Brooklyn., is an ecologist, a population geneticist, a mathematical ecologist who has researched diversity in human populations, and John Rock Professor of Population Sciences and head of the Human Ecology program of the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been a member of the US and Puerto Rican Communist Parties, the Movimiento Pro Independencia (the Independence movement in Puerto Rico), and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, and he was on an FBI surveillance list. During the last two decades, Levins has concentrated on application of ecology to agriculture, particularly in the economically less-well-developed nations of this planet. When her mother, Rosario, died in 2011, she moved in with her father in his Cambridge, Massachusetts home. She has two brothers, Ricardo and Alejandro. Ricardo Levins Morales is a well known poster artist and organizer and lives in Minneapolis, MN. Alejandro Levins is an entrepreneur in Western Massachusetts. The son of her brother Ricardo is Minneapolis based hip hop artist Manny Phesto.
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