Tamera Marko specializes in transnational multi-lingual, multi-media community literacy projects in the Americas (Spanish, Portuguese, English). She channels her work as an historian of Latin America and her 15 years of teaching writing to combine genres of new media, composition and historical memory to research and publish in "the genre called for by each project." Marko's academic, media and poetry publications explore youth and motherhood human rights projects. Her work has been featured in academic journals, film festivals, theaters and universities in Medellin, Rio de Janeiro, Durham and Boston. “Facebook is a great tool for transnational communication, but it is not enough for profound changes in consciousness necessary for local-global justice. For this, we must also cross borders and know each other face to face.” In a collaboration between Emerson College, MIT, Duke University, and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín, she directs "Medellín: violencia is not the whole story . . ." Most recently, this project involved 100 Emerson students worked through new social media to bring 7 young emerging artists from Medellín, Colombia to exhibit their work at Emerson College, MIT, UMass Lowell and Roxbury Community College. The exhibit included 200 photographs and 17 videos and paintings. Before academia, she was a journalist covering human rights in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. She is currently Acting Director of the First Year Writing Program at Emerson College in Boston and a Faculty Affiliate at Duke University.She founded and directs DukeEngage Colombia.
