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Marlène Ramírez-Cancio
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is Associate Director, Arts & Media, at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Housed at NYU, Hemi connects artists, scholars, and activists from across the Americas and creates new avenues for collaboration and action. Focusing on social justice, we research politically engaged performance and amplify it through gatherings, courses, publications, and archives. Our dynamic, multilingual network traverses disciplines and borders, and is grounded in the fundamental belief that arts practices and critical reflection can spark lasting cultural transformation (hemisphericinstitute.org). Marlène is also co-founder and co-director of Fulana, a Latina satire collective whose works have been shown internationally at film festivals, museums, universities and online at fulana.org.