Judy Juanita is a Lecturer in the College Writing Programs at the University of California, Berkeley.
11 Facts About Judy Juanita
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Judy Juanita was formerly a writing teacher at Laney College.
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In 1968, while attending San Francisco State, Juanita served as editor-in-chief of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party.
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Judy Juanita was born Judith Hart in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Oakland.
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Judy Juanita was a member of the Black Student Union.
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Judy Juanita received her BA in psychology and MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State.
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Judy Juanita taught at San Francisco State University as a Black Psychology and Black Journalism instructor in the first Black Studies program in the United States.
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Judy Juanita attended the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in 1992.
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In 2014 and 2015, Judy Juanita's short story collection The High Cost of Freeways was a finalist in the Donna Tartt First Fiction Contest.
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Judy Juanita has been a Buddhist since 1980, practicing Nichiren Buddhism with Soka Gakkai International.
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Judy Juanita appears in the 2020 Netflix documentary, Last Chance U: Season 5, LANEY College.