Dr. Helen Yaffe, via Twitter

Save the date (during the day and evening): Acclaimed lecturer & author on Cuba, Dr. Helen Yaffe will be speaking in Milwaukee/Waukesha, either in person or virtually. We invite you to before that view her two films, which are available on You Tube:

1)  Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change (2021), which premiered in November during COP26, the international climate change conference in Glasgow. (Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O30QkYHek74, and film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APN6N45Q6iU)

2) Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity (2020) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGYHwldJ_gY&t=729s), These & other video interviews on BBC, etc., can also be seen on YouTube, including at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDVJ4skzGXQ6Ll0zHt--Rg

Here is her short biography, and a more extended biography is attached:

Dr Helen Yaffe is a Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at the London School of Economics. Her teaching focuses on Cuban and Latin American development. Since 1995 she has spent time living and researching in Cuba and participating in solidarity campaigns. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2020), Che Guevara: the Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and co-author of Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid (2017). She has co-produced two documentaries: Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity (2020) and Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change (2021), which premiered in November during COP26, the international climate change conference in Glasgow.

Email us to check on event details and confirmations, at wicubacoalition@gmail.com.