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Staff
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Full-Time Staff
Rev. Dr. Daisy L. Machado, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Daisy L. Machado serves as the Executive Director of the Hispanic Summer Program and is Professor Emerita of American Religious History at Union Theological Seminary. She holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College; an M.S.W. from Hunter College School of Social Work; a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is the first U.S. Latina ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1981 in the Northeast Region and has served inner city congregations in Brooklyn, Houston, and Fort Worth. From 1996-1999, Dr. Machado served as the first Director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative, a $3.4 million project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts to increase the presence of Latinx faculty teaching in seminaries, schools of religion, and religion departments around the country. She was also academic dean at Lexington Theological Seminary in Lexington, KY and Union Theological Seminary in NYC where she was the first Latina to serve as academic dean at both schools. Dr. Machado has also been invited to teach in various schools including as Luce Lecturer in Urban Ministry at Harvard Divinity School and Lecturer at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas. She has also been a speaker at numerous conferences in the United States and abroad. She was the first Latina to serve as Chaplain for the Summer Season in 2015 at the Chautauqua Institution where her sermons were heard in the daily chapels with over 600 participants every day and will return to again serve as Chaplain in July 2023. Her latest publication is Borderland Religion: Ambiguous Practices of Difference and Hope, an anthology published in 2019, co-edited with Dr. Trygve Wyller (Norway) and Dr. Bryan Turner (Australia), which contains essays by a group of international scholars. In this anthology she also has an essay titled âSanta Muerte: A Transgressing Saint Transgresses Bordersâ. In addition, Dr. Machado has also authored many book chapters on the borderlands, among them: the chapter âHistory and Latino Identity: Mapping A Past That Leads to Our Futureâ in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latino/a Theology, 2nd edition, 2023; âBorderlife and the Religious Imaginationâ in the anthology Religion and Politics; âVoices from Nepantla: Latinas in U.S. Religious Historyâ in Feminist Intercultural Theology; ââEl gran avivamiento del â33â: The Protestant Missionary Enterprise, Revival, Identity, and Traditionâ in Futuring Our Past: Explorations in the Theology of Tradition; âThe Southern U.S. Border: Immigration, the Historical Imagination, and Globalizationâ in Rethinking Economic Globalization; and âLa Otra AmĂ©rica â The Other Americaâ in A Dream Unfinished: Theological Reflections on America from the Margins. She is also co-editor of the anthology, A Reader in Critical Latina Feminist Theology which contains her essay âThe Unnamed Woman: Justice, Feminists, and the Unnamed Woman.â Her first monograph on the issue of the borderlands was Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945. In May 2023, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Drew University in Madison, N.J. A native of Cuba, Dr. Machado came to the New York City with her parents at the age of three and though she has lived in many parts of the United States, she is a New Yorker at heart who loves a good bagel and will always make room for a pastrami on rye with mustard.
Jorge Juan RodrĂguez V. Ph.D.
Associate Director for Strategic Programming
Jorge Juan RodrĂguez V is the son of two Puerto Rican migrants who came to the united states a year before he was born. Though his mother was raised in the tall, curvy mountains of Barranquitas, and his father in the humid, bustling streets of Rio Piedras, Jorge grew up with his parents, grandmother, and uncle in a small affordable housing community in urban Manchester, Connecticut. His story of diaspora, language, gender, race, and disability has propelled his academic journey, leading him to degrees in biblical studies, social theory, and liberation theologies. Dr. RodrĂguez completed his Ph.D. in History at Union Theological Seminary. After six years with the Hispanic Summer Programâstarting as a Social Media Intern in 2014 and swiftly moving into grant writing and implementationâDr. RodrĂguez serves the HSP as the Associate Director for Strategic Programming overseeing new initiatives and grants. Dr. RodrĂguez lives in New York City with his partner, Ashley, and BerneDoodle, Alfabeto.
Elizabeth Niang
Administrator
Elizabeth was born and raised in West Memphis, Arkansas. She graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Williams Baptist College (Walnut Ridge, Arkansas), where she met her future husband, Aliou Niang. She graduated with a Master of Business Administration from The University of Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee). Elizabeth has served as Administrator for the Hispanic Summer Program since 2018. She states that the best part of her job is the opportunity to interact with students, professors and sponsors and help fulfill HSPâs mission to provide theological education for Latinas/os in a context of academic excellence. Elizabeth, her husband, and their son Micah live on campus at Union Theological Seminary where Aliou teaches.
Current Fellows
Yadi MartĂnez Reyna
Senior Fellow for Marketing and Graphic Design
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Leslie MartĂnez
Senior Fellow for Marketing and Communications Strategy
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Wendy Cordero Rugama
Fellow for Marketing and Communications
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