Annecy Baez

November is National Family Caregivers Month - Take Care to Give Care
This articles relates to caring for my late husband, David Hernandez, who was a Senior Grants Officer at Bronx Community College. Missing his compassionate presence, and grateful for having had his love and support for those wonderful years of our marriage.

My Daughter's Eyes and Other Stories, winner of the 2007 Mármol Prize, is a collection of fourteen interrelated stories about young Dominican women living in the Bronx as they deal with the choices they make in their everyday life. These stories span three decades, beginning in the 1970s, and their topics range from mother-daughter struggles, father-daughter betrayal, family, and child abuse, to emerging sexuality, love, loss, and healing.

Annecy Baez's daring treatment of taboo themes, such as sexual child abuse and the struggle of the individual against restrictive traditional values, makes this book unique in Dominican fiction.

Social Work Alumna Wins Prize for First Latina Fiction
Daughter's EyesHunter College School of Social Work alumna Annecy Báez (MSW ‘84) is the winner of the 2007 Miguel Marmol Prize for her collection of short stories, entitled My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories.  The prize is awarded for a first book-length work of fiction in English by a Latina/o writer that reflects a respect for intercultural understanding and fosters an appreciation for human rights and civil liberties.

My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories is composed of 14 interrelated stories about young Dominican women living in the Bronx, and their experiences of loss, betrayal, and reparation.  Benjamin A. Saenz— the judge for this year’s prize and a poet, novelist, and teacher at the University of Texas—said, “The words in these stories become a tribute to the immigrant experience, of women and girls from the Dominican Republic living in New York ….”

Báez received her bachelor’s in psychology from Pace University and her doctorate from New York University School of Social Work.  A clinical social worker for the past 22 years, she is currently the director of the Counseling Center at Lehman College.

My Daughter’s Eyes is the title of Dominican writer Annecy Baez’s first book, winner of the 2007 Miguel Marmol prize from Curbstone Press, one of the most prestigious independent presses in the United States focusing on disseminating the work of Latino writers in the United States.

The Clarion is the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York news. It was a wonderful time for me. I left teaching at NYU,  and I was now the Director of the Counseling Center there providing mental health services to students, but had just published my collection of short stories in 2007. Everyone was shocked because they did not know that I had been writing for a long time, and creatively writing since 1995. The collection of stories was a process in between finishing a dissertation, and working as a Director of a trauma center for children, and later a professor at NYU and then finally ending at Lehman College as the Director of the Counseling Center. There I was whole, I was all of me and embrace this multiplicity within me, the artist, the writer, the teacher, the therapist, the researcher, the director, and it was all ok. I hope that you too can embrace the whole of who you are.

February 25, 2008 (Vol. 7, No. 3)
Dr. Annecy Baez, director of the Counseling Center, will read and discuss her book, My Daughter's Eyes and Other Stories, on Thursday, February 28, from 4-5 p.m. in the Treehouse Conference Room, located in the Leonard Lief Library. Sponsored by the Leonard Lief Library, this event is free and open to the public.

Liamar Almarza: Gendered Diaspora Experiences: Annecy Báez’s My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories and Junot Diaz’s Drown
Dominican-American authors Annecy Báez and Junot Diaz explore in their award winning collections of short stories the experiences of young Dominican migrants living in North American urban environments. However, while Báez gives voice to Dominican women struggling to come to terms to their transcultural and gender identities in the Bronx, Diaz focuses on male characters and the reconfiguration of Dominican masculinity in diaspora spaces.
Presenting migration experiences from two differing but interconnected perspectives—the articulation of femininity and masculinity in transcultural locations as lived by a female and male subjects—, these works offer complementary views on how ethnicity, race, social class, age and geopolitical location interact in the formation of transcultural gender identities.
Informed by feminist and postcolonial theoretical approaches, this paper will examine the ways in which these two works challenge and/or reinforce gender stereotypes and expectations in Dominican and Latino/a communities in the US, offering a critical evaluation of translocation strategies in urban borderlands.

Spearheaded by Detective Fudge, the Coordinator of the Law Enforcement Explorer program for youth at the New Rochelle Police Department, these Explorers undergo training in diverse areas of police work. This program emphasizes career development, life skills, and leadership experience. On that day, the Explorers were there to explore Zen meditation and learn more about the Empty Hand Zen Center.

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Aquella noche de  abril del 1987, Mateo Morrison, aunque sonriente, lucía nervioso. No era para menos, pues mucho de lo acontecido esa noche, lo tendría a él como principal gestor. En el salón principal de la Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, seis jóvenes que se hacían llamar poetas (que no poetisas), pertenecientes al recién estrenado “Segundo Círculo de Mujeres Poetas”, presentarían por primera vez sus poemas ante un público diverso, escéptico, curioso y tan numeroso que una buena cantidad de personas se vieron obligadas a permanecer de pie.

The article profiles author Annecy Baez, who was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in New York City. She discusses Baez' book "My Daughter's Eyes and Other Stories," composed of 14 interwoven tales about various Dominican women coming of age and the daily challenges they must face. Baez, whose work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, is a psychotherapist by profession and the Director of Counseling at Lehman College.

Touro Graduate School of Social Work recently hosted award-winning visual artist Andrea Arroyo at the school’s “Arts Intervention in Social Work Practice” class.
The artist and curator shared her presentation “Tribute to the Disappeared” with the social work students and facilitated a class discussion on art for social change on Mon., Apr. 18th.
“Tribute” is an art project Arroyo founded in 2014 in honor of the disappeared in Mexico that aims to bring public attention to the disappeared.Students said it had proven a moving experience.The class is taught by Associate Professor Annecy Báez, who seeks to incorporate visual art, journaling and creative writing into her clinical social work with children, teens and adults.
“Art stirs our emotions – from anger, to fear, to grief,” said Báez. “It brings awareness to issues we may be unaware of, and it humanizes them.  Art [can help] expose and resolve many of the social justice issues we encounter.”

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... These pressures also places Dominican men at increased risk for depression and alcoholism (Kail et al., 2000). ... 393-424). Washington, DC: American Public Health Association. Alcantara, A., Aquino, J., Lantigua, JA, Rodriguez, D., & Soto, A. (1995). ...