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Alejandra Rubio is a printmaker, cultural curator, and community advocate from San Francisco. She is critical of societal norms and their impact on marginalized people and is fascinated by the power of radical imagination through the act of dreaming and creating art.
This has led her to pursue a career as an arts educator for the last two years working with children, youth, and adults. She was most recently awarded the YBCA Creative Corp Grant where she launched her own youth arts program, Creative Seeds of Activism. She mentored 10 local youth as they developed their own Art and Activism posters that were then displayed in Puerto Alegre, a local business. She has been a cultural bearer with Arte Unidos for the last 3 years sustaining the legacy of this project by collaborating with local businesses and providing solo shows to local marginalized artists.
She is currently the 2024-2025 R.A.I.C.E.S. Fellow at Galeria, where she is working on creating a body of work reflective of her experience having grown up in the Mission and Bayview regions.

Since 2012, Rivera has served as Executive Director of Galería De La Raza. Her work explores intersections of community development and art in a social practice with the goal to create equitable and sustainable communities.

She is the Board Treasurer of The Chicana/Latina Foundation, whose mission is to empower Chicana/Latinas through scholarship and leadership training.  In 2022, Rivera was appointed by San Francisco’s Mayor to the Commission Of  The Department On The Status Of Women.  As of August 2024, Rivera is the Vice Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women.

In 2023, Rivera joined the board of directors of The GLBT Historical Society Museum & Archives, whose mission is recognized internationally in the field of LGBTQ public history.  On the national front, Rivera is a board member of The National Association Of Latino Arts & Culture, a 34 year U.S. based organization that supports the national Latine art & culture sector through funding, leadership training and advocacy.

Amongst her busy days she is found preoccupied by parenting, Lobita – her black shepherd mix – along with her partner Sarah. 

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Ivette Diaz is a Latinx cultural worker born and raised in Santa Cruz, CA. Her personal experience as a first generation student, and woman of color with an interest in the visual arts led her to pursue a B.A. in Art History and Ethnic Studies from CSU East Bay, where her work focused on the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality within the contemporary art world. 

She is the Curatorial Programs Manager at Galería de la Raza where she continues to foster appreciation for community arts and raise awareness on its importance in creative placekeeping and community development.