Join Latino Research Institute and the Mellon High Impact Scholars Team in welcoming our resident Austin Mellon High Impact Scholars: Frank Báez: poet, writer, editor (Dominican Republic) and Ángel Nakamura: multimedia journalist (Mexico). Hear about their work, discuss and network about mutual intellectual endeavors, and deepen scholarly and artistic connections within the community. Please share with relevant colleagues. Lunch and refreshments will be available.

Ángel Nakamura is a multimedia journalist with 18 years of experience covering breaking news and stories in Mexico related to organized crime, politics, social issues, the justice system, sports, arts and human rights. He firmly believes that journalism requires constant innovation and exciting new formats for the social media users. He’s always in search of constant professional and personal development and open to new challenges. He is a Texan by adoption.

Frank Báez, born in the Dominican Republic in 1978, has published six books of poetry, a short story collection, and three nonfiction books. In 2006 he received the Short Story Prize of the Santo Domingo International Book Fair for Págales tú a los Psicoanalistas, and in 2009 he won the Salomé Ureña National Poetry Prize for Postales. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as a member of Bogotá39, the list of the best Latin American writers under forty years of age. He is one of the founders of the spoken word band, El Hombrecito. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, and translations of his books of poetry have been published in Arabic, Dutch, German, Bangla, and English.