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Dr. Marta Moreno Vega was born in El Barrio in New York City of Puerto Rican parents. She is a product of the New York City Public School system where she was admitted in an honors program in high school. She credits her attendance at the World Conference Against Racism in 2001 (? query date) in Durban, South Africa, with her awakening to the existence of global systemic racism.

She is the mother of two sons, Sergio and Omar both of which are routinely stopped by police.

She founded the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in 1976.

Vega credits her phenotypically white but afrodescendant mother for instilling in her the notion that she was black or "negra" as a child, despite AFrican origins being taboo in Puerto-Rican society. Likewise, she recalls her darker-skinned father calling her "negrita" as a term of endearment. Vega recalls the ta