Katia Cruz Quintana

Participant: Katia Cruz Quintana
Biography: Katia Cruz Quintana is currently the coordinator of MAC en el Barrio, the community outreach program of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Puerto Rico. She is also a graduate Philosophy student in the University of Puerto Rico. Her academic work focuses on decoloniality and poetry within Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. Her studies, in marriage with her more than 10 years of feminist and LGBTQIA+ activism has informed the projects she has coordinated and currently creates in the Museum with the collaboration of the Museum director and curators. She is currently working on growing the oral history project "Reporterxs ciudadanxs: Historias Orales de Loíza", the reggeatón musical creation project "Barrio Obrero en el microphone" and investigating decolonial metaphors in Puerto Rican poetry.
Location: Puerto Rico
Interviewer: Schuyler Esprit