Brooklyn College professor wins award from sociology group
Came to the US as refugee from Chile
When Brooklyn College professor Carolina Bank Muñoz recently received an award for her work by the American Sociological Association’s Labor and Labor Movements Section, it brought her full circle.
Bank Muñoz was named a co-winner of the Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award in June for her dedication to engaging in scholarship and activism that directly addresses social and economic justice to help bring about positive social change.
A native of Santiago, Chile, Bank Muñoz came with her family to Los Angeles as “a child of the dictatorship,” fleeing the economic and political climate of her homeland after General Augusto Pinochet overthrew former president Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens. In Chile, her father helped organize a taxi drivers’ union, while her mother worked as a secretary in a government agency under Allende Gossens.