Vilma Luz Cabán

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How does a young Puerto Rican girl from a troubled home radically bloom like an iron rose in the gray urban landscape of New York City? Growing up in a turbulent and politically charged era, Vilma Luz’s narrative captures her personal struggles and her professional triumphs.

Against all statistical odds, higher education became the pathway that led her to several humanitarian quests and globe trekking adventures. A voice within the Nuyorican diaspora, its vulnerability tells the story of how destiny found this statistical outlier and catapulted her to Africa, Asia, and different places in Latin America to be the voice of battered women and children.

In this wide-ranging and often heart-wrenching memoir, Cabán weaves her personal experiences and lessons from her survival with her deepest wish to change the course of these cycles of abuse for women everywhere.

Ultimately, she succeeds in shining a light on a reality often kept in the shadows, and offers hope for a way out and a better tomorrow.

The human experience can be fraught with trauma and risk, but as Cabán shows us, these experiences can also drive us to be the force behind real change for the better.

A bruised and broken heart can become the heart of an advocate. And advocates can make all the difference.

INFORMING POLICY & EDUCATIONAL REFORM: The Heart of an Advocate was published by Green Heart Living Press. It was released in September 2023 during National Hispanic Heritage Month. This memoir can help raise awareness on the issues related to domestic violence in Latin America. Her book is a hybrid of a personal narrative and a trove of research findings about her research on domestic violence in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It shares a hurt little girl’s personal accounts and how that story evolved for this humanitarian advocacy researcher. In her memoir, she amplifies the voices of hurt women and children as it brought her to examine issues of protecting the rights of child brides in Kenya, and abandoned children in Morocco and Guatemala .

Most recently it became a top new release in Amazon in the categories of Human Rights Law, Sociology Books on Abuse, and Education Policy & Reform. A testament that her book is helping to bring light to issues that are still plaguing global communities.