One of the strategies that undocumented students have employed to “earn” citizenship is to academically achieve. On Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in Olin Hall, Room 101, Aurora Chang, assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago, shares the lessons she has learned on her journey/transition from a once-undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic in the US. Through the telling of counter-stories from her own life and those of her students, she reveals how undocumented intelligence and hyperdocumentation, both terms she developed and theorized, are the foundation upon which undocumented students’ critical hope is built and their powerful narratives are told.

– Kevin Lam, School of Education