Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is a Senior Program Officer and part of the Creativity and Free Expression team for the Ford Foundation. She joined Ford in 2018 after serving as curator at El Museo del Barrio for nearly a decade. Concurrent to her work in museums, Aranda-Alvarado taught as an adjunct professor; consulted and curated independently on Latinx and Latin American art and culture; and published and advised at the Smithsonian Institution. 

Elizabeth Armstrong is an independent curator, writer, and art historian based in Palm Springs, California. She had been the Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum and was the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where she started the Center for Alternative Museum Practice. She also has served as Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport, California, and worked as Curator at both the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and the Walker Art Center.

Liz Cohen is a photographer and performance artist whose decades-long career focuses largely on the intersections of immigration, industry, labor and women’s representation in popular media. Cohen is perhaps best known for her BODYWORK project, in which she simultaneously transformed a dilapidated East German Trabant into an American El Camino lowrider while inhabiting a new identity herself as a car customizer and bikini model. Through this immersive series, Cohen produced a profoundly influential body of work which challenges American cultural norms.

Luis Croquer is a Boston-based curator and arts professional. He has curated solo, group, and permanent collection exhibitions with a diverse and multi-generational group of national and international artists.  Most recently, he was the Henry and Lois Foster director and chief curator of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and had previously served as deputy director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Programs at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Anne Ellegood is the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She had been the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Hammer, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. She also has held the position of Associate Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. At the Hammer, she co-curated Made in LA 2018, a biennial of LA-based artists.

Amy Franceschini is an artist and designer whose work facilitates encounter, exchange and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the certainties of a given time or place where a work is situated. In 1995, Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, an international group of artists, anthropologists, farmers and architects who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political and environmental organization of space.

Miki Garcia was appointed Director + Professor of Practice at the Arizona State University Art Museum in December 2017. She was previously the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Prior to this, she worked at the Public Art Fund, N.Y. Garcia has worked with numerous emerging as well as internationally recognized artists.

Pablo Helguera is an artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied. Helguera has worked in a variety of contemporary art museums, most recently as head of public programs at the Education department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Red Hook, New York. Her writing and curatorial practice explore the intersections of history, contemporary art, and Indigeneity. She is Executive Director of Forge Project, Taghkanic, NY, and was Senior Curator for the 2019 and 2022 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Hopkins was part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the fifty-eighth Venice Biennale.

Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota) is a curator, museum consultant, and arts leader based in Santa Fe. She is the Interim Director at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and former Executive Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts. Prior to joining CAA, Means served as the Director of Advancement at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Executive Director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation. Means also has a wide range of museum experience, including at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Karen Moss is an art historian, independent curator, educator and writer based in Santa Monica, California. Former Professor of Critical Studies at USC Roski School of Art and Design, she was Director of the MA Program in Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere. Moss has held senior curatorial and education positions at the Orange County Museum of Art; San Francisco Art Institute; Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center. Earlier in her career she worked at MoCA, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum. 

Lucía Sanromán is the Director of the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, the premier experimental kunsthalle in Mexico City where since joining in March 2018 she has implemented a program that balances experimentation with social commitment to local neighborhood ecologies and dynamics through programs and exhibitions. Previous to this, she joined Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, as director of visual arts and became YBCA curator at large.

Gilbert Vicario is the Chief Curator of the Perez Art Museum Miami. Previously, he was the Selig Family Chief Curator at Phoenix Art Museum. Prior to joining Phoenix Art Museum, he was senior curator and division head for curatorial affairs at the Des Moines Art Center. In 2006, Vicario was named U.S. Commissioner for the International Biennale of Cairo by the U.S. Department of State for the exhibition Daniel Joseph Martinez: The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant.

Curator, writer, and contemporary art historian Olga Viso is based at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Phoenix Art Museum. Viso was previously the Executive Director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Director/Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She is a scholar of contemporary and Latin American Art, with a focus on the contemporary art of Cuba.