Welcome to the HeyDreamer! Podcast by Jessie Medina (@jessiemedinaofficial). This podcast is for dreamers who dream big and take aligned action! If you want to feel inspired and learn about how others are living their dream life, this is the place for you.
On this episode, I had the honor to chat with Prisca Dorcas, author of For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges & Tender Hearts. On this interview she shares her journey from Nicaragua to the U.S. and why she started Latina Rebels and how she became a best-selling author.
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia. To date she has participated in the Young Adult anthology "Nevertheless, We Persisted." Recently Prisca also participated in an anthology edited by Lynda Lopez titled, "The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez." She started the platform Latina Rebels in 2013, and currently it boasts over 300k organic followers online. She has been featured in Telemundo, Univision, Mitú, Huffington Post Latino Voices, Guerrilla Feminism, Latina Mag, Cosmopolitan, Everyday Feminism, and was invited to the White House in the Fall of 2016. She is unapologetic, angry, and uncompromising about protecting and upholding the stories of Latinx communities. Que viva la gente! Currently, her first full length book with Seal Press a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, is out everywhere books are sold!
You can follow Prisca on IG @priscadorcas and @latinarebels.