Marjorie Agosin, Chilean-American Human Rights Activist

Carroll University will host Marjorie Agosin, a Chilean-American human rights activist and writer, in a presentation on April 5.  Marjorie's talk is entitled: "Beloved Memory: Meditations on Writing, Exile and Homecoming."  She also will display 30 tapestries with sociopolitical themes.  Marjorie has published more than 20 books, including "Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love," which focuses on the lives of women under the rule of General Pinochet in Chile from 1973 to 1989.  Many of these women created quilts to protest Pinochet's dictatorship; the quilts subsequently were smuggled out of Chile and were used to tell the women's stories.