PAGE Blog Salon
Imagining America welcomes a new cohort of Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows, who will be introducing themselves through Blog Salon stories. These fellows were selected for their sustained commitment to public engagement, and their unique approaches to engaged scholarship.
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Tribuno del Pueblo: The People’s Paper
April 16, 2026
Ada Marys Lorenzana. Understanding the need for more Spanish publications, the Tribuno del Pueblo began publishing local stories from farmworkers, laborers, and immigrants in 1973. Voices that were regularly ignored in mainstream media were amplified in the Tribuno.
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Chasing Stories Across Borders: Notes from a Fangirl
April 16, 2026
Meng-Hsuan Ho. Fangirl devotion. Transpacific flights. Working mothers. These might seem like separate stories. But they all involve collective emotions—feelings that are shared but often unspoken, waiting for someone to name them and bring people together around them.
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African Migration is not One thing, so Let’s Rethink it Now
April 16, 2026
Chimee Adịọha. In the summer of 2023, I have just moved from Texas, still with all the boxes I arrived from Nigeria with, and then in my new apartment in Southern California, I started creating Diaspora Africa with my friend in London.
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Participatory Music, Sound Experiences, and Community Health
April 10, 2026
Ashley Martin-Casler. Though music is often a part of our daily lives, its potential as a vehicle for healing is less present as we go about our everyday routines. In our public consciousness, do we recognize music as a channel for emotional modulation, which can impact our sense of wellbeing?
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Imagining Data as an Extension of our Bodies
April 10, 2026
Leah Friedman. For the last decade, I have been working as a professional dance artist. I have danced and toured with several contemporary dance companies in Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, AZ, have taught countless modern dance classes, facilitated movement improvisation sessions, and created my own digital and live dance performances.
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Read the Room: Go Tell the Community We Heal Together
April 10, 2026
Asia N. Ashley. In a moment when books are being legislated out of classrooms, and the stories that reflect our lives are being pulled from shelves, gathering around a text becomes an act of resistance and of care. Read the Room offers a space for people who crave connecting outside of high-social, work, or academic environments.
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Assembling Zines in the Fault Lines
April 10, 2026
Shromona Mandal. My dissertation research asks how Hindu Nationalism foments in the wealthy racially segregated suburbs and ethnoburbs of Metro Atlanta and my ethnographic method of “studying up” requires me to straddle the simultaneity of power and marginalization that my interlocutors navigate.
