RISE 2019 Conference

Dr. Fernando Tormos-Aponte is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland—Baltimore County School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science, a Research Fellow of the Southern Methodist University Latino Center for Leadership Development, and a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Political Science. He earned his MA and PhD in political science from Purdue University, and a BA from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Dr. Tormos-Aponte’s research focuses on how social movements cope with internal divisions and gain political influence. Additionally, he has written about environmental justice, energy inequality, intersectional solidarity, and Puerto Rico. Tormos-Aponte’s work has appeared in Politics, Groups, and Identities, Public Administration Review, Environmental Policy and Governance, Alternautas, PS – Political Science & Politics, and in the edited volumes The Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism in American Politics and Gendered Mobilization and Intersectional Challenges. He is currently working on studies on social movements in Puerto Rico, transnational social movements, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Tormos-Aponte has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Jacobin, In These Times, Nueva Sociedad, St. Louis American, and the Entitle Blog.