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Saturday, April 5, 2025
Events Detail
A conversation with Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, creator of La Borinquena!
OCT
24
24
2024
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Music Building, Faculty Dining Room
Audience: Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Visitors
Admission: Free to the public - RSVP required
Tickets: Click here
Contact Organizer
Professor Magdalena Sagardía Jimenez
718-960-8280 magdalena.sagardia@lehman.cuny.eduEdgardo Miranda-Rodríguez is the recipient of Eisner's Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic efforts via the benefit anthology Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico featuring La Borinqueña teaming up with Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman and other DC Comics heroes. He is the Creative Director and owner of Somos Arte, a Brooklyn-based creative services studio. Among his many accomplishments. Edgardo is also an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State giving talks and leading workshops in Latin America about how La Borinqueña speaks to social justice issues as a graphic novel.
La Borinqueña’s powers are drawn from history and mysticism found on the island of Puerto Rico. The fictional character, Marisol Rios De La Luz, is a Columbia University Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate student living with her parents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She takes a semester of study abroad in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico. There she explores the caves of Puerto Rico and finds five similar sized crystals. Atabex, the Taino mother goddess, appears before Marisol once the crystals are united and summons her sons Yúcahu, spirt of the seas and mountains and Juracan, spirit of the hurricanes. They give Marisol superhuman strength, the power of flight, and control of the storms!