Miriam E. Jiménez Román, Afro-Boricua professor, editor, archivist, curator, author & activist, born June 11, 1951 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico to Arcelia Román Ruiz & Baldomero Jiménez Font. The family migrated to East Harlem (1952) where her sisters Carmen, Evelyn & Awilda were born. She was a curator & archivist at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (1987-1997). She co-founded & was executive director of the AfroLatin@ Forum (2005), which held 2 international conferences, Afro-Latin@s Now!, that assembled artists, academics & activists. Her critically acclaimed, co-edited, “The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History & Culture in the United States” won the 2011 American Book Award. She also co-founded & edited the Palgrave Macmillan Afro-Latin@ Diasporas book series & helped organize the Black Latinas Know Collective in 2019 to promote & mentor Afro-Latina intellectuals who study Blackness & Latinidad. On Aug. 6, 2020, Jiménez Román died of cancer in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.