Angélica is an anthropologist, interdisciplinary researcher and human rights strategic communicator based in New York. Her practice includes exploring transmedia narrative formats and designing communication strategies that integrate experimental methodologies of social conversation to address urgent issues such as climate crisis, mental health, defense of indigenous thinking, social movements, forced migration and armed conflict. Her work includes the design of public space interventions, the facilitation of pedagogical programs and the coordination of transnational journalistic projects. Angélica worked as a senior reporter for El Espectador newspaper in Bogotá; coordinated the communications office of the Dejusticia Center for Social Studies and was a part-time faculty of Journalism and Innovation at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. She has been a fellow of Fulbright, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Gabo Foundation, and a research assistant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Angélica holds a M.A. in Anthropology and Design from The New School and is part of the Liana, a curatorial research collective that explores transferences between plants and humans with projects such as COCAWORLDS.
