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About Victor

Victor is a 2020 Boston Artist-in-Residence. His work has been published or is forthcoming in The Boston Globe, Longreads, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, and Gulf Coast, among others. He is finishing his MFA in fiction at Boston University. For the past ten years, he has worked in movements for racial and immigrant justice. He was the 2018 Chertkov Fellow for Labor and Justice at the Blue Mountain Center. He used to serve as the lead educator for a union of 18,000 immigrant workers, and has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and BU. Teaching is one of the greatest joys of his life. To borrow the words of bell hooks, he believes in “education as the practice of freedom.” He speaks Mandarin, Spanish, and English.