Biography
Tara Joann Yanez is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Her research analyzes topics related to gender, race and ethnicity, public security, crime and violence, and peacebuilding initiatives from a sociological lens.
Yanez’s dissertation, “Navigating Latin American Urban Peripheries: How community-led strategies to create justice and security challenge violent state building projects in Cali, Colombia,” is written under the direction of Dr. David Smilde.
