Jazmine janay cuevas

Jazmine Janay Cuevas

Afro-Latinx Representative

Jazmine Janay Cuevas (she/her/ella) is a Pan-Africanist and art practitioner whose overall aim is to urge Mexicanidad to recognize Blackness which has historically, legally, and socially been e-raced. She is uncovering how West African and Afro diasporic spirituality, predominately Yoruba and its Caribbean manifestations, have shaped the transnational and venerated performance of Curanderismo and its effects on the Pan-Mexican psyche. She currently pursues her PhD in Africana Studies at Cornell University. 

Jazmine has adjuncted at the University of Texas at El Paso teaching classes on Hip-hop, Nation-Buidling, and Blackness in Latinidad. She has held fellowship with the Borderlands Shakespeare, RaceB4Race, Alamo Colleges Annual Democratizing Racial Justice: Ethnic Studies Educators’ Academy, Penn States’ Cooper-DuBois Mentoring Program, and the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Outside of academia Jazmine has served as Youth Works Coordinator for El Paso, Texas’ branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was founding Secretary of the non-profit C.A.R.E. Coalition.