Welcome New Board Member Dr. Lourdes Torres!

We are so excited to announce the addition of Dr. Lourdes Torres to the Woods Fund Chicago Board of Directors!

"I am honored to join the Wood Fund’s dynamic leadership team. I share its goal of working to dismantle structural racism and systemic interlocking oppressions, and its commitment to support community organizations engaged in the vital work of creating a more just and equitable society. This work has never been more necessary."

Dr. Torres is the St. Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal, Latino Studies and the co-series editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press.

Her research and teaching interests include Latinx languages and culture, and queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb, and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression. Recent articles are published in Meridians, Lesbian Studies Journal, and International Journal of Bilingualism.

She served as a board member for Amigas Latinas, a nonprofit organization that advocated for the Chicago based Latina lesbian, bisexual, transgender community. She is currently working on a history of LLEGO, The National Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization that ran from 1987 to 2004 and she is also researching Spanish language use in Chicago.