Vrana, assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University, researches youth, social movements, urban histories, and class formation in modern Central America, with particular interest in how political culture and violence shape class formation. At the conference at USC Shoah Foundation, Vrana will share her research on transitional justice and her ongoing collaboration with Guatemala’s branch of H.I.J.O.S. (in English, Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Oblivion and Silence). H.I.J.O.S. is an activist group that seeks trials and punishment for genocide perpetrators, participates in the defense of human rights and keeps alive the memories of the victims and those still fighting.