Angélica currently works as Communications Coordinator at ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in New York, where she leads communications and campaigns for a global network of human rights organizations and social movements. She is also co-founder and curator of Liana Collective and its COCAWORLDS project, where she develops curatorial research, exhibitions, and public programs at the intersection of art, culture, and social justice.
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Education
2021 – 2023, M.A. Anthropology, Minor in Design — The New School for Social Research, New York, USA. Fulbright Scholar.
2005 – 2010, B.A. Social Communication & Journalism — Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia.
Additional Education
2022, Contemporary Curatorial Practices in Colombia — Experimental School of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017, Podcasting: Telling Stories in Sound — Berkeley Advanced Media Institute, Berkeley, USA.
Languages
Spanish, Native.
English, Professional Working Proficiency.
Strategic Communications & Human Rights
2023 – ongoing, Communications Coordinator — ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New York, USA.
2022 – 2023, Strategic Communications Consultant — Shipibo Conibo Center, New York, USA.
2021, Strategic Communications Consultant — Fauna Flora Funga Initiative, Climate Litigation Accelerator, NYU School of Law, New York, USA.
2017 – 2020, Communications Coordinator & Project Manager — Dejusticia – Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society, Bogotá, Colombia.
Journalism & Writing
2026, Art Critic & Writer — Terremoto. When Earth Speaks Back: Óscar Santillán’s New Exhibition Investigates the Limits of the Human.
2025 – 2026, Forging Journal Writer Fellow — Forge Project, USA. Author of The Many Voices of Coca (2026) and ‘I Speak for the Forest, for the Rivers, for the Ancestors Who Keep Conversing Through the Mambe’: Aimema Úai Paints Murui-Muina Continuity (2025).
2020 – 2021, Senior Editor & Project Coordinator — Activamente, Fundación Mutante, Colombia.
2020, Co-author — El medioambiente, un desafío periodístico: Pistas para investigar y narrar historias socioambientales, Consejo de Redacción and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Colombia.
2018 – 2020, Co-creator & Producer — Relatos Anfibios, Dejusticia, Colombia.
2018, Project Coordinator & Editor — Cúcuta: Emergency Exit, Dejusticia, Provea and Open Society Foundations, Colombia / Venezuela.
2015, Author — Savia Botánica, Grupo Argos, Colombia.
2011 – 2015, Senior Reporter – Science, Environment & Education — El Espectador, Bogotá, Colombia.
Curatorial Practice & Research
2023 – ongoing, Co-founder & Curator — Liana Collective and its COCAWORLDS project, New York, USA.
2024 – 2025, Co-curator — Coca, Palabra-Mundo / Coca, Word-World, United Nations Headquarters and Open Society Foundations, New York, USA.
2024, Curator — Riografías del Baudó, Doctors Without Borders / MSF LATAM, Colombia.
2023, Curatorial Research Resident — Las Yerbas Apothecary, Canal Projects, New York, USA.
2022, Black Fashion Collection Research Fellow — Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C., USA.
Teaching & Workshops
2022, Teaching Assistant — Objects of Revolution, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA.
2021 – 2022, Journalist Training Consultant & Project Manager — Heinrich Böll Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia.
2020 – 2021, Instructor — CdR/Lab Periodismo en clave verde, Consejo de Redacción and DW Akademie, Colombia.
2020 – 2021, Part-Time Faculty, Journalism & Innovation — Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
2020, Workshop Facilitator — Design Thinking: A Practical Workshop for Latin American Journalists, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
2025 – 2026, Forging Journal Writer Fellow — Forge Project, USA. Writing on Indigenous art, ecology, and more-than-human worlds.
2024, Open Society Foundations Grantee — Open Society Foundations. Coca, Palabra-Mundo / Coca, Word-World at the United Nations Headquarters, New York.
2023, Curatorial Research Residency — Canal Projects, New York, USA. Las Yerbas Apothecary, an interspecies research project on plant-human relationships.
2022, Black Fashion Collection Research Fellow — Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C., USA.
2021 – 2023, Fulbright Scholar — Fulbright Program, USA. M.A. in Anthropology at The New School.
2020, ECA–ICFJ Alumni Engagement Grant Recipient — International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), USA. Design Thinking: A Practical Workshop for Latin American Journalists.
2019, Migration Storytelling Grant — Gabo Foundation, Colombia. Reporting on Sikuani and Amorúa Indigenous peoples forcibly displaced across the Colombia–Venezuela border.
2019, Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award – Jury Recognition, Radio Chronicle — Colombia. La masacre invisible, Relatos Anfibios.
2019, Professional Fellows Program — International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) / U.S. Department of State.
2014, National Environmental Journalism Award — Amway, Colombia. Casanare, el afán por encontrar un culpable, El Espectador.
Contact
acuevas @ newschool.edu
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