I’m Eric Rangel, a student, community health professional, and lifelong learner whose interests often cross the boundaries between the humanities, healthcare, history, and public service.

My professional background is rooted in healthcare and community engagement. Over the years, I have worked in clinical settings and community health, helping individuals navigate healthcare systems, connect with medical services, and access resources that can improve their health and well-being. I also serve as Executive Director of Latino LinQ, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Latino LGBTQ+ communities through advocacy, education, outreach, and connections to care.

Alongside my professional work, I am pursuing undergraduate studies in English and History at Dalton State College. My academic interests include American and British literature, intellectual and cultural history, philosophy, political thought, and the ways literature reflects the social and historical circumstances in which it is produced. I am particularly interested in questions surrounding morality, identity, inequality, freedom, power, and the responsibilities individuals have toward one another and their communities.

Writing is one of the ways I explore those questions. My work ranges from literary criticism and historical research to essays, poetry, and creative writing. I am especially drawn to literature because it allows history, philosophy, politics, and individual human experience to intersect within a single work.

My interests extend well beyond any one discipline. I enjoy studying philosophy, architecture and design, languages, food and culinary traditions, history, and the arts. Rather than viewing these interests as entirely separate pursuits, I see them as different ways of understanding people: what we create, what we believe, how we organize our societies, and how we make meaning from our experiences.

This website serves as a growing archive of that curiosity. Here, I share literary criticism, historical research, philosophical reflections, creative writing, and other projects that document both what I have studied and how my thinking continues to develop.

More than anything, I believe education should be an ongoing practice rather than something confined to a classroom or a degree. This site is my attempt to document that process: one book, essay, question, and project at a time.