CV
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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
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)
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
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
National Committee for the History of Art- June 2024
Graduate Student Travel Fellowship
The Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative July 2023-July 2024
The Mellon Foundation
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library
Rockefeller Curatorial Fellow – Museum Pedagogy Jan 2023-Aug 2023
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.