Sabrina Vourvoulias
Sabrina Vourvoulias is an award-winning bilingual freelance op-ed columnist and journalist whose pieces have appeared at Philly.com, Philadelphia Weekly, NBC10/Telemundo62, Philadelphia Magazine, City and State Pennsylvania and The Guardian US, among others. She is the editor of 200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia, published in 2012. She is also the author of Ink, a novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala's armed internal conflict, and of the Latinx experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad's Best Books of 2012. Her short stories have appeared at Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and in a number of anthologies, including Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, The Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, and Latino/a Rising in 2017.
What does protest sound like? For this Philadelphia activist, it’s the eight-string jarana.
A traditional instrument from Veracruz, Mexico has become the voice of immigration activism and community building in the US. And not just for activists, but for popular bands Las Cafeteras and JaroChicanos too.