Published: Sept. 29, 2018
Amanda Rose Villarreal presenting to group

Amanda Rose Villarreal was awarded the First Place Prize in the annual Scholarly Debut Paper competition hosted by TETA's Higher Education Academic Symposium. Her paper, which detailed the planning, process, and results of a performance activism piece which occurred across three collegiate campuses over several months, will be published in the 2019 issue of the Texas Theatre Journal.

As the first -place author, Amanda Rose was invited to Dallas to present her paper and to participate in a panel titled "The Language of Discourse" centered around difficult conversations, college campuses, and institutional responses.