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Hi, I’m Ariana︎
I’m a cultural worker who helps people organize to create change in their communities.
Working across a range of disciplines including research, design, photography, and oral history, my work often focuses on everyday histories of people, place, and power.
I leverage participatory and collaborative methods to mobilize communities and build belonging in place.
My creative practice is deeply informed by my decade-long experience as an arts administrator, social worker, educator, and strategist, supporting organizations working to transform culture.
I’m a cultural worker who helps people organize to create change in their communities.
Working across a range of disciplines including research, design, photography, and oral history, my work often focuses on everyday histories of people, place, and power.
I leverage participatory and collaborative methods to mobilize communities and build belonging in place.
My creative practice is deeply informed by my decade-long experience as an arts administrator, social worker, educator, and strategist, supporting organizations working to transform culture.
I leverage participatory and collaborative methods to mobilize communities and build belonging in place.
My creative practice is deeply informed by my decade-long experience as an arts administrator, social worker, educator, and strategist, supporting organizations working to transform culture.
Lately
Senior Global Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
IDEO
IDEO
IDEO
IDEO
Designing the conditions for equity and belonging to thrive across IDEO’s systems and creative culture.
Core Organizer
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, NYC
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, NYC
Harnessing research, oral history, and data to advance just housing futures with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.
Member
NEW INC
NEW INC
Blending art, design, and technology to uncover Black radical placemaking practices in the Central Valley as a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator.
Working Artist Fellow Residency
Pioneer Works
Pioneer Works
As a Pioneer Works Alumni Resident, developing a new, socially engaged work aimed at fostering solidarity tourism in Allensworth, CA—a historic free Black town in the San Joaquin Valley.
Previously
Research Fellow
Independent Curators International
Independent Curators International
Awarded a 2023 Curatorial Research Fellowship with Independent Curators International to research geographies of Black sovereignty and world-building in California.
Create Change Artist-in-Residence
The Laundromat Project
The Laundromat Project
As an artist-in-residence with the Laundromat Project, created Staying Power, a print and online platform to amplify a people’s history of public housing.
Project Manager
The Center for Cultural Power
The Center for Cultural Power
With the Center for Cultural Power, spearheaded an artist commission process for We, As Ourselves, a campaign that aims to reshape the narrative around sexual violence and its impact on Black survivors.
Senior Manager, Teen Programs & Neighborhood Engagement
The International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography
Brought leadership to the International Center of Photography's Teen Academy program, supporting 600+ youth annually in developing and presenting their creative practice.