DR. GRISEL Y. ACOSTA is an associate professor at the City University of New York-BCC. She is the editor of the Routledge anthology, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity. Her book, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, and is forthcoming in 2021. Recent works can be found in The Baffler, A Gathering of the Tribes, and The Lauryn Hill Reader.