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EDUCATION

The Graduate Center at the City University of New York

Ph.D., Art History

University of Southern California                                           

M.A. Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere                  

Thesis: “The Trouble with Radical Women: Anti-Blackness, Latinidad and Contemporary Curating”

University of California, Los Angeles                                         

M.Ed., Education

Le Cordon Bleu, Los Angeles                                                   

Certificate of Culinary Arts

University of California, Berkeley                                             

B.A. Political Science, Honors/Minor, Ethnic Studies

RESEARCH/TEACHING AREAS

  • Contemporary Art and Performance           

  • Education/ Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

  • Critical Theory/ Critical Race Theory         

  • Latinx/ Latin American/African Diasporic Art, Media, Film

  • Ethnic Studies/Cultural Histories               

  • Foodways/ Culinary Histories

 CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library January 2023-Aug 2023

Rockefeller Curatorial Fellow

Curator of Public Programs             January 2020-Aug 2022

Active Cultures- Los Angeles, CA

Curator                                                                                     January 2020

one never remembers alone

USC Roski School of Art and Design, Mateo Gallery

Curatorial Assistant/Project Coordinator              June 2019- Nov 2019

CURRENT: LA

Julio César Morales and Max La Rivière- Hedrick

New Shores: The Future Dialogue Between Two Homelands         

Curator                                                                               April 2019

Tell Me A Story and I’ll Sing You a Song

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

 

PROFESSIONAL

UCLA Community School – UCLA GSE&IS                             

Associate Director of Partnerships and Professional Learning, UCLA Community School

UCLA- Center for  Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning      

Consultant

Los Angeles Unified School District                                                     

Teacher/Coordinator/Assistant Principal

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

City College of New York, CUNY

Adjunct Lecturer- Contemporary Latin American/Latinx Art History

University of Southern California- Roski School of Art & Design

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant                                                           

Critical Theory in Art Design and Visual Culture (GE)

University of California, Los Angeles                                                    

Lecturer- Department of Education & Information Studies

Los Angeles Unified School District                                                    

Education Specialist (K-12)                   

 CONFERENCES, LECTURES, AND WRITING       

“Food to Remember”, DIGEST 4, Active Cultures, Los Angeles, June 17, 2020. 

“An Archaeology of Radicality: Victoria Santa Cruz and the search for Afro-Latina artists in Radical Women” Critical Mediations Conference: The Unruly Canon, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 4, 2019.

“An Archaeology of Radicality: Victoria Santa Cruz and the search for Afro-Latina artists in Radical Women” Black Portraiture(s): Memory and the Archive | Past. Present. Future, New York University, October 17, 2019.

“On Nikki Pressley”, Guest Essayist for black is a color at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, June 2017.