Rina Rossi, born 2002, (she/her) is a writer, student, activist, linguist and intersectional feminist. She is half-Dominican, half-Japanese and first-generation American. Rina was born in Rhode Island and has lived all over New England and California before residing in New York City. Rina earned her B.A. in Political Economy & Classical Civilizations at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2022 and an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University. She is currently a PhD student in Latin American history. Her research interests include Caribbean feminism, reproductive and abortion history in the Colonial Caribbean. In the future, she hopes to dually teach undergraduates history and politics, while lawyering for reproductive justice.
In her free time, she loves to listen to jazz, visit museums, read, drink espresso, watch ballet, walk, cook and watch films. Her favorite book is Don Quixote. Some of Rina’s inspirations include Audre Lorde, Zora Neale Hurston, David Lynch, Toni Morrison, Herodotus, Julia Alvarez, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Holly Golightly, Donna Tartt, Salman Rushdie, Al Pacino and Jõao Gilberto, among many others.
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