about me

Kiana González Cedeño is a native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she was born and raised until she moved to Orlando, Florida. She received her B.A. from the University of North Florida, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Now, Dr. González-Cedeño, better known as Dr. G, is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University. Dr. G’s work utilizes lamentation as a theoretical framework that exposes and elevates un(der)told histories of Puerto Rico. She looks at popular culture as a corpus that demonstrates the ways Black Puerto Ricans have refused and rebelled against colonial empire since the start of modernity.

She is also a solidarity fellow with the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, and works on building digital archives of Afro-Descendant women in the Caribbean surviving ecological disasters. You can find her forthcoming publications in Centro Journal.