Yarimar Bonilla es directora del Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños de Hunter College. También es profesora en el Departamento de Estudios Africanos, Puertorriqueños y Latinos en Hunter College y en el Programa de Doctorado en Antropología en el Centro de Graduados de City University of New York. Es una académica galardonada y una destacada intelectual pública, la Dra. Bonilla es una voz importante en temas de política caribeña y latinx. Ha colaborado con The New Yorker, The Nation y The Washington Post, escribe una columna mensual llamada “En Vavién” para el periódico puertorriqueño El Nuevo Día, y se le escucha con frecuencia en la radio pública nacional y en programas de televisión como Democracy Now. Recientemente contribuyó con un episodio de la nueva serie de radio bilingüe de WNYC sobre Puerto Rico, La Brega. Ha escrito para revistas académicas sobre temas como el rol de la protesta digital en el movimiento Black Lives Matter, los impactos posteriores al desastre en el Puerto Rico contemporáneo y las luchas laborales anticoloniales en el Caribe francés.

Es autora de los libros Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015); Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019); y el próximo, Trouillot Remixed (2021). Sus proyectos digitales incluyen Visualizing Sovereignty: Animated Video of Caribbean Political History, que codiseñó, y Puerto Rico Syllabus Project (#PRSyllabus), que cocreó para proporcionar un recurso de acceso abierto para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje sobre las crisis socioeconómicas que afectan a Puerto Rico.

Yarimar Bonilla is the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She is also a Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an award-winning scholar and prominent public intellectual, Dr. Bonilla is a major voice on issues of Caribbean and Latinx politics. She has contributed to the New Yorker, the Nation, and the Washington Post, writes a monthly column called “En Vavién” for Puerto Rico’s newspaper El Nuevo Día, and is frequently heard on National Public Radio and television programs such as Democracy Now. Most recently, she contributed an episode to WNYC’S new bilingual radio series about Puerto Rico, La Brega. She has written for scholarly journals on such subjects as the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, post-disaster impacts in contemporary Puerto Rico, and anti-colonial labor struggles in the French Caribbean.

She is the author of the books Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015); Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019); and the forthcoming Trouillot Remixed (2021). Her digital projects include Visualizing Sovereignty: Animated Video of Caribbean Political History, which she co-designed, and the Puerto Rico Syllabus Project (#PRSyllabus), which she co-created to provide an open access resource for teaching and learning about the socio-economic crises affecting Puerto Rico.