Angélica Cuevas-Guarnizo
I am a Colombian communicator, anthropologist, curator, and journalist based in New York. I currently coordinate communications at ESCR-Net (International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), a global network of more than 300 movements and organizations across 80+ countries, where I lead campaigns and narrative strategies in dialogue with grassroots organizations and social movements to advance social justice, climate justice, and Indigenous and collective rights.
I hold an M.A. in Anthropology and Design from The New School. I was a fellow with the curatorial team of the Black Fashion Museum Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (2022, Washington, DC), and I conducted research at the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Lab (DESIS Lab) at Parsons School of Design (2021–2022, New York). I also completed a professional placement with the Communications and Social Engagement team at the ACLU (2019, New York).
I have curated exhibitions and editorial projects in transnational contexts. I presented Riografías del Baudó: ¿Cómo se cura un territorio? for ARTBO, in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (2024, Bogotá). That same year, I presented COCAWORLDS at the United Nations Headquarters in New York with Liana Collective, bringing together the work of eight Latin American artists whose practices engage with the coca plant.
In Colombia, I led the communications department at Dejusticia (Center for Law, Justice and Society), working closely with activists, communities, and social organizations on public advocacy, strategic litigation, and human rights defense.
I am a co-founder of Liana, a collective based in Brooklyn that develops curatorial research on relationships between humans and plants, with an emphasis on the traditional uses and cultural value of the coca plant in tension with stigmatizing narratives. My project Point of View focuses on positioning the work of Latin American artists in media and international platforms for art criticism.
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