NCID-2228
Marie Hernemar
Independent Scholar/Writer
Independent Scholar
Education/Degree:
1 Creative Writing (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
About
Marie Hernemar, a native of Haiti, migrated to the USA at a young age. Marie has an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Creative Writing. For her thesis: Marie wrote a novel:
Charlotte: The Witness as part of her MFA. The novel portrays a young victim of clergy sexual abuse in a developing country, and the role of race and space plays in marginalizing and oppressing victims.
Marie wrote a non-fiction The Swedish Engineer in which she details critical issues the investigators and officials ignored in the handling of the hurricane Sandy/FEMA and NIFP flood report which her late husband wrote and was altered without his consent.
My Beloved Husband is another non-fiction Marie wrote. It details her husband’s cancer diagnosis, his death and having his body taken from her and given to his Swedish relatives, seeing her name erased from the obituary she wrote for her Swedish-born husband, marginalized, pushed aside, excluded based on bias.
Current Work
As part of my intended research, I intend to use my background working in the field of non-profit, charitable organizations and more specific with foster care populations, and show a direct cause and effect of Space-and-Race. Starting with lack of investments in the affected families, the space they inhabit, the healthcare they receive as well as the lack access to other aspects that are not available to them but are, to families in the preferred groups. Much of poverty and living in the periphery are related to the intended or unintended impacts that Space-and-Race has had.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Space-and-Race