Congratulations to the recipient of the 2024 SECOL Student Excellence Award for Best Student Paper, José Julián Álvarez Retamales! His paper “Examining Coda /r/ Variation in Puerto Rican Spanish” was unanimously selected as the winner, the scholarly achievement to be celebrated at the 2025 meeting of SECOL in Boca Raton. José is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Linguistics, NYU University. His work concerns identity in Latinx communities and its intersection with Blackness. Check out his website here.
