Historian, author of the forthcoming book Nueva York: Making the Modern City.

Pedro A. Regalado is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He researches and teaches the history of race, immigration, planning, and capitalism in urban America. His first book, Nueva York: Making the Modern City, is a history of New York City’s Latinx community during the twentieth century, from the “pioneers” who arrived after World War I to the panoply of Latinx people who rebuilt the city in the wake of the 1975 fiscal crisis. Across a range of topics, from urban renewal to the rise of Latinx bankers, US military operations in Central America to drug workers who repurposed tenement buildings, Nueva York demonstrates how the democratic ideals of the city hinged, in large part, on the experiences of Latinx New Yorkers. Regalado’s work has been featured in The Journal of Urban History, Boston Review, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Before joining Stanford's Department of History, Regalado was a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was raised in New York City’s Washington Heights. He earned his BA in History from Loyola University Chicago his MA and PhD in American Studies from Yale University.

Poet, critic, translator, and board member of The Clemente.

Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry—most recently Transversal (University of Arizona, 2021), named a Book of the Year by the New York Public Library and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award—and of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award and an MLA honorable mention. As a translator of Latin American poetry, Noel has published Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman, 2018), a finalist for the National Translation Award and longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, as well as no budu please by Wingston González (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and adjacent islands by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (UDP/DoubleCross/La Impresora, 2022), among other works. A Letras Boricuas fellow in poetry (Mellon Foundation/Fundación Flamboyán) and the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Schomburg Center, Noel has been both fellow and faculty at CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshop, has performed internationally (Poesiefestival Berlin, Barcelona Poesia, the Toronto Biennial of Art, the Havana Book Fair, etc.), and is an editorial advisor for Latino Poetry (Library of America) and a board member of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Noel’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, and Bomb, and has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, Taller Boricua, and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Urayoán Noel lives in the Bronx and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU.

Associate Director at Performance Space New York.

Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda-Echegaray is a cultural worker, organizer,curator, and producer who currently serves as Associate Director at Performance Space New York (formerly PS122). Since joining Performance Space in 2018 she has developed and shepherded programs that center community and being in community above all else. With artist Monica Mirabile, Ana Beatriz brought back and reshaped P.S. 122’s Open Movement, a free open space for movement improvisation, artist-led workshops and cross-pollination. Curating PSNY’s Open Room, Ana Beatriz has engaged artists to reconceive the organization’s lobby as a community gathering, coalition building space, and site of installation and performance. Alongside the Strategy Group (a collective of five artists that were part of Performance Space’s 02020 Cohort) Ana Beatriz led the process of revisiting and experimenting with organizational structures that culminated in the most recently adopted Strategic Plan and accompanying programming. Before working at Performance Space, Ana Beatriz held various positions in museums, galleries, artist studios, and collectives in both Puerto Rico and New York. Her main interests lay in the intersection between art and social justice, with an emphasis on the empowerment and inclusion of underrepresented communities in the cultural sector. 

Artist, performer, and Co-Director of Recess Art.

Shaun Leonardo’s multidisciplinary work negotiates societal expectations of manhood, namely definitions surrounding black and brown masculinities, along with its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. His performance practice is participatory and invested in a process of embodiment.

Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a recipient of support from Creative Capital, Guggenheim Social Practice, Art for Justice and A Blade of Grass. His work has been featured at The Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, and New Museum, and profiled in the New York Times and CNN. His solo exhibition, The Breath of Empty Space, was presented at MICA, MASS MoCA and The Bronx Museum. And his first major public art commission, Between Four Freedoms, premiered at Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, in the fall of 2021.

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