Cory Fischer-Hoffman

Cory Fischer-Hoffman is a Doctoral Candidate in Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies at the University of Albany.  She received her MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Kansas and her BA from the Evergreen State College.  Cory was the Campaign Director for the Prometheus Radio Project, leading a successful fight for the expansion of community radio across the United States and she is the co-founder of the Prison Voices Project- a radio story-telling program that examines the role of prisons in rural and urban New York and beyond.  In addition to producing radio, Cory has worked as a journalist covering social movements in Latin America, most recently she was a writer-editor of Venezeulanalysis. Cory is currently a lecturer in the Urban Studies department at the University of Pennsylvania and she is an adjunct professor in the Media Studies and Production department at Temple University.  Her current projects explore oral history and community based archives as a means of organizing against development, gentrification and displacement in North Philadelphia.