Elsie Colon, a veteran teacher at Touro, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hunter College and holds an M.A. in English from Queens College (CUNY) and an M.Phil. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.  Her specialty fields are multicultural-american, African-American, post-colonial, feminist, and 20th-century literatures (with emphasis on women writers).  In connection with this, she presented a paper at Columbia University entitled “The Representation of Anger and Rage in the Narratives of Multicultural Writers: Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid.”  Her teaching philosophy emphasizes allowing students “a voice in the classroom” and preparing them “to live more meaningful lives.”