Biography
Juleyka Lantigua-Williams is a journalist, writer, editor, and college professor whose written and editorial work has appeared widely in newspapers, magazines and books in the United States and abroad. She earned a Masters in Journalism from Boston University and a B.A. in Government and Spanish Literature from Skidmore College. Additionally, she is a graduate of the prestigious Radcliffe Publishing Course (now the Columbia Publishing Course). While researching immigration policy as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain she helped launch a monthly newspaper and a quarterly magazine. Juleyka has been a nationally syndicated columnist with The Progressive magazine's Media Project for eleven years. Her opinion columns-covering a broad range of issues from women's rights abroad, the environment, immigration, maternal health, international politics, and Latino identity-have appeared in The Houston Chronicle, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Harford Courant and the L.A. Times among other national, regional and online publications. Her magazine credits include JET, The Progressive, GIANT, XXL, Honey, and Urban Latino. For the past three years she has been a book/author scout and series editor focusing on pop culture and hip-hop titles for ABC-CLIO, a large general interest publisher. Juleyka currently teaches writing at Naugatuck Valley Community College (Waterbury, CT), and has previously taught at LaGuardia Community College (Queens, NY) and the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center (NYC), as well as served as a mentor for National Public Radio's Next Generation Radio training program. Her essays, interviews, and young adult fiction have appeared in Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels Vol. 36 (Gale/Cengage Learning, 2011); Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers Vol. 258 (U.S.A. Carnegie Learning 2008); The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader (Fourth and Fifth Eds.); Once Upon a Cuento (Curbstone Press); and Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press).