Steven Núñez

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I'm Steve Núñez. I'm a first generation Dominican-American that grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. After graduating high school, I enlisted in the US Army, where I spent the next five years earning a Green Beret as an 18B, Special Forces Weapons Sergeant, attached to 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne); serving worldwide missions to combating both the Global War on Terrorism in Afghanistan as well as Narco-Terrorism through Foreign Internal Defense in Central America.

Following an honorable discharge began contracting for the Department of State as a Personal Security Specialist, charged with the protection of US Congressional Delegations and other Diplomats at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Philosophy & Religion (dual concentration), as well as Anthropology, with minors in Middle East & Islamic Studies and Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

I currently attends Harvard Divinity School in pursuit of a Master Theological Studies with a focus in Religion, Ethics, and Politics.

My academic interests are how U.S. legal and political structures legitimize Anti-Muslim rhetoric and how the media landscape propagates Islamophobia as well as exploring the intersections of terrorism and gang violence.

Following the completion of this graduate program, I hope to pursue a PhD in Anerican Studies with a focus on Political and Legal Philosophy, Power, Identity, and Critical Race Theory.

After experiencing the passing of numerous friends, colleagues, and enemy combatants in a war fought primarily due to religious undertones, I strive to mitigate imprudent actions in the name of dogmatic misinterpretations of faith. I hope to propagate what I see as much needed political, educational, social, and religious reform while emulating the Special Forces motto of freeing the oppressed as the central tenet to my personal ethos, “De Oppresso Liber”.

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