DR. EDWARD PAULINO

Professor Edward Paulino is a scholar, author, playwright, and esteemed Assistant Professor at the CUNY John Jay College — Department of History. He leverages his insights on the history of genocide, race, border relations, nation building, Latin America/Caribbean, 1937 Haitian Massacre, and the African Diaspora.

In 2012, he co-founded Border of Lights, an organization created to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1937 Haitian Massacre. The Haitian Massacre left 20,000 people murdered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. With his direction BOL has evolved into international human rights collective — supported through crowd-funding and utilizing art, policy and education as advocacy tools. BOL is championed by acclaimed authors Michele Wucker, Julia Alvarez, and Edwidge Danticat.

Paulino’s social justice and human rights endeavors have been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York State Archives. His work has been featured in the BBC, DW, Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Miami Herald, New York Times, and MSNBC, respectively.

Paulino, resides in Brooklyn with his partner Dr. Zaire Dinzey, author and Associate Professor at Rutgers University with their two children.