Santa Fe, New Mexico (UCTP Taino News) - Jamie
Figueroa (Taino), a recent valedictorian graduate from the Institute ofAmerican Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico will be one of the featured
interviews on ‘Dateline NBC’ Friday, June 1, 2012. A part of the program, will
showcase various colleges and graduates from around the United States. The segment, airing at 9pm est. (8pm central),
will include a Tribal College, IAIA, for the first time. The Institute of American Indian
and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA), is one of 36 tribal
colleges located in the United States.
Figueroa graduated earlier this month with a
B.F.A. in Creative Writing. She is of Taino
heritage from Boriken (Puerto Rico), and enrolled with the United Confederation of Taino People. Among her many
accomplishments, Figueroa has been published in various literary
journals, including Split
Oak Press, ekleksographia, the Tribal
College Journal and the Santa
Fe Literary Review. She also created an internship for herself at
the Santa Fe Reporter
writing an online blog, “With This Pen,” which explores race, identity and
relationships. Figueroa has also taught creative writing in elementary, middle
and high schools, and in the Honors Program at the University of New Mexico.
She believes story–the act of telling story and listening to story–is the most
powerful tool we have as human beings to enact compassion and change.
'Dateline NBC,’
is the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime.
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