Speaking Engagements

Angela Garcia brings important insights into drug addiction, violence, inequality, caregiving, medicine, and family life in the US and Mexico.

She gives frequent talks to academic audiences, medical professionals, and the broader public.

Informed by her decades of anthropological fieldwork, Angela’s talks help people think expansively about drug addiction and practices of care, especially as they manifest within low-income families and communities.

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Topics Include:

  • Addiction

    Social, political and cultural issues surrounding drug addiction, including its impacts on women, families, and communities

  • Mexico

    Social and political issues, especially as they pertain to addiction, drugs, and violence

  • War on Drugs

    The history and contemporary consequences of the War on Drugs in both Mexico and the United States

  • Writing

    Ethnographic writing and narrative non-fiction

  • Violence

    The effects of violence (neighborhood, criminal, political) in/on Latino communities, women, families, and youth

  • Women and Drugs

    The impacts of drugs and addiction on women and families

  • Incarceration

    Especially as it pertains to drugs, addiction, and women

  • Immigration

    A range of issues pertaining to immigration, especially among Mexicans

  • Latinos

    Both in the US and Mexico–cultural, social and political issues affecting the Latino community

Past Events Include:

Keynote Lectures

School for Advanced Research (2023), University of Vienna, The Vienna Ethnography Laboratory (2022), Dartmouth College (2017), Yale University, Department of Psychiatry (2020)

University Lectures

University Lectures (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia, etc.)

Grand Rounds

Psychiatry Departments at Harvard and Stanford Universities

Book Festivals

The Texas Book Festival (Austin)

View Angela’s CV for more lectures, keynotes, and conferences.

Book Angela

If you are interested in booking Angela for a speaking engagement, please send her a message.

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