This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and presented in collaboration with the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program at UW-Madison.
Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow.
In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a Black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Reappropriating the term “igualada,” Francia Márquez, catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power, by refusing to “know her place.” Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen.
