Rosa Clemente Honored by UAlbany Alumni Association

Rosa Clemente, a current Ph.D. student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, is the 2022 recipient of the University at Albany Alumni Association’s Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award. She was formally honored at Alumni Association's Excellence Awards Gala, Saturday, April 30 at Wolferts Roost Country Club in Albany. 

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An award-winning activist, political commentator and independent journalist, Clemente is a leading voice of her generation. The Bronx-born Black-Puerto Rican is frequently sought out for her insight on Afro-Latinx identity, Black and Latinx liberation movements, police violence, colonialism in Puerto Rico and more. After Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in 2017, Clemente organized a group of young Latinx media-makers to cover the destruction and its political implications. She is the creator of Know Thy Self Productions, through which she’s organized multiple community activism tours. In 2008, Clemente made herstory when she became the first Afro-Latina to run for vice president of the United States on the Green Party ticket. Among her many projects, she was associate producer on the Oscar-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah. 

Clemente holds a bachelor’s degree from UAlbany and a master’s degree from Cornell University.