Guest Speaker: Andalusia Knoll-Soloff

The CAS Speakers Series Presents

 

 

ALIVE YOU TOOK THEM

Graphic narratives on Mexico’s Disappeared

 

Monday, April 2

4:30pm • Porter Hall 100 Carnegie Mellon University

 

Andalusia Knoll-Soloff

will speak about comics journalism and the challenges of illustrating a story where reality surpasses fiction.

On September 26, 2014, police kidnapped 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in southern Mexi­co. To date, their parents still search for them, proclaim­ing, “alive you took them, alive we want them.” For the past three years Andalusia Knoll Soloff, along with a Mexican collective of artists and researchers have been working on a graphic novel that uses first-hand ac­counts to tell the story of these parents’ search to find the students and challenge government impunity.

 

Andalusia Knoll-Soloff is a freelance multimedia jour­nalist based in Mexico City. She is a frequent contribu­tor to VICE News, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now! and TRT World. Her work focuses on gender violence, human rights violations and land struggles in Latin America. She has reported on the Ayotzinapa case for over three years and is part of a collective behind Alive You Took Them: Searching for the Ayotzinapa 43.