Beatriz Eugenia Ramírez-Betances is a Puerto Rican professor who was a student activist at the University of Michigan. She was an active member of both the Students of Color of Rackham and the Graduate Student Organization. She co-chaired the Students of Color of Rackham National Graduate Student Conference in 2002. In 2005, she was part of the negotiating committee for GEO and University of Michigan contract agreement.
Background
Beatriz Eugenia was born on January 20, 1972 in Madrid, Spain. Daughter of Wallace Ramírez-Acarón and Beatriz Zahyde Betances-Fradera. She was raised in Puerto Rico since she was 3 months old, and she lived for 8 years in Michigan, USA, from age 26 through 34.
Education
Beatriz studied at the University of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico. In 1994 she received a degree of the Bachelor of Arts. In 1998 she was a student of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. She became a Postgraduate. In 2002 Beatriz received a degree of the Master of Arts.
Career
Beatriz worked as a Graduate student instructor in Residential College, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States from 2000 to 2002. Teaching fellow at the Center Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan in 2003, graduate teaching consultant, since 2004. Vice-president at the Puerto Rican Literature Students Association in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico from 1996 to 1997.
Since 2002 he was a conference co-chair at the comparative literature intra faculty-student forum at the University of Michigan, United States from 2001 to 2002, conference chair for the 13th annual graduate and professional national student of the color of Rackham conference in 2002, graduate student representative program in comparative literature from 2002 to 2003.
Works
Other Work
Director: (play) Historias para ser contadas. Residential College, University of Michigan. Actor: (performances) Calibanismo.Taller de Imágenes en Puerto Rico, Oiste el chiste del dominicano. Taller de Imágenes en Puerto Rico, Trilogía/Suicide note from a cockroach in a low income housing project Taller de Imágenes en Puerto Rico. Assistant editor Ediciones Huracán.
Membership
Member bargaining team of the Graduate Employee Organization of the University of Michigan
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United States
2004 - 2005
Republican university child care oversight committee.
Rackham Student Government of the University of Michigan
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United States
American Association of University Women
She was a Vice-president.
Puerto Rican Literature Students
1996 - 1997
Beatriz was a conference chair.
Color of Rackham Association
2001 - 2002
Latin American Studies Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Modern Language Association
American Civil Liberties Union
Union representative committee on student-parent's issues, steward, contract enforcer in the grievance committee
1999 - 2003
Connections
Beatriz married to Manuel Elías Cardoza-Soriano on February 17, 2000. They have a child: Laura Ester Cardoza-Ramírez.