Vallerie Matos

Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow

 

Vallerie Matos is a writer from New York City. She is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center with research interests in Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature and epistemologies. Vallerie is a Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the English and Black & Latinx Studies departments at Baruch College. She holds an MA in literature from Hunter College and a BS from New York University. Vallerie currently serves as Associate Director for Black& Latinx Publics at Baruch and the Mellon Foundation. Prior to CUNY,  was a Program Director for an arts and social justice youth development program for 5 years. Vallerie is also a Literary Fellow with VONA Voices, Screenwriting Fellow with Lambda Literary, Research Fellow with The Center of the Humanities’ Lost & Found archival initiative, and an IRADAC Fellow with The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.