Professor Ysamur Flores-Pena

“You can never erase a culture totally. You can destroy the external part of it, the cities you can destroy the codices, but what you cannot destroy is the resilience of the human spirit.”

University of California Los Angeles
Department of World Arts and Culture
OTIS College of Art and Design

Dr. Flores-Peña was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Studies: University of Puerto Rico, B.A, Catholic University of Puerto Rico, MA. Ed. UCLA M.A and Ph.D. Publications and lectures on Afro-Caribbean Ritual Art and Afro-Cuban religious cultures and Latino Folklore. Lecturer at WAC, Center for Afro-American Studies, and Adjunct Professor at Otis College of Art and Design.