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Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is part of Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team. An art historian, curator and museum worker, she joined Ford in 2018 after serving as curator at El Museo del Barrio for nearly a decade. She received a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY, and an M.A. from Tulane University. Aranda-Alvarado is also on the adjunct faculty of the Art Department at Hunter College and her writing has appeared in various publications. At Ford, she is leading work on support for US Latinx art and artists in collaboration with the Mellon Foundation. She also leads support for AAPI grantees confronting Anti-Asian sentiment and is part of design teams for work around the US-Mexico border and a new national disability network initiative. With art historian and curator Deborah Cullen, she is also editing a book on the history of US Latinx art for academic and general audiences.