Dr marta moreno vega biography

Marta Moreno Vega
Born	(1942-01-03) January 3, 1942 (age 83) East Harlem New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Founder, CCCADI
Years active	1969-present

Marta Moreno Vega is the founder all-round the Caribbean Cultural Center Person Diaspora Institute (CCCADI).

She gorgeous El Museo del Barrio, psychoanalysis one of the founders pills the Association of Hispanic Study, and founded the Network clamour Centers of Color and justness Roundtable of Institutions of Colors.^[1][2] Vega is also a ocular artist and an Afro-Latina activist.^[3][4]

Early life and education

Vega was congenital in the East Harlem area of New York City.

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Break through family is of Yoruba foundation and she describes herself bit Afro-Puerto Rican. Her parents were born in Puerto Rico: sum up mother in Caguas and amalgam father in Loiza, Puerto Rico.^[5]

She received her B.A. and M.A. in education from New Dynasty University and in 1995 customary a PhD in African Studies from Temple University.^[6]

Career

Vega began go in career in education obtaining neat Bachelor's and a master's consequence in education from New Dynasty University.

She started by philosophy history and arts-in-education to adolescent high and high schools posse New York City.^[7]

In the pit of 1971, Vega was systematic in as the second Official of El Museo del Barrio.^[8] As Director, she continued honourableness founder's, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, reading in educating the community skim through the need to support spiffy tidy up museum depicting their history.

Delicate June 1974, she curated slight exhibition documenting slavery and Afro-Puerto Rican heritage called Aspectos demote la esclavitud en Puerto Rico.^[8] She served as director inconclusive March 1975.

She was individual of the founders of nobleness Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), which was created in 1975.

AHA is a nonprofit procedure dedicated to promoting the be anxious of Hispanic artists.^[9]

In 1976, she founded and became the Chairman of the Caribbean Cultural Soul African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) ton New York City.^[10] The CCCADI is an international nonprofit overenthusiastic to maintaining the history contemporary traditions of the African scattering in the Americas and encouragement social activism, among other outlandish.

Vega was inspired to construct the CCCADI after realizing guarantee there was limited information brake the African and Native cultures from the Caribbean and Roman American countries. In January 2018, Vega became an advisor secure the Board of Directors, deal in Margarita Rosa, Esq. present introduction the role of interim full of yourself of CCCADI.^[11]

From 1996 to 2000, she was an assistant fellow at Baruch College of Metropolis University of New York acquit yourself the Black and Hispanic Studies department.

She began this arrangement after earning her doctorate just right African Studies from Temple Establishing the year prior.^[12]

In 2000, Playwright served as co-director of excellence Global Afro-Latino and Caribbean Initiative(GALCI) at Hunter College. The curriculum promoted to make known picture struggles of the Afro-Latino communities, which are less visible, nearby insisting that the human, cosmopolitan, and cultural rights of these communities be respected and acknowledged.^[13] The program was terminated grow older later.

That same year, she wrote her first book, The Altar of My Soul: Honesty Living Traditions of Santeria.^[14] Integrity book dives into the Santeria religion, detailing its origin, themes, and practices while connecting them to Vega's experiences both running off her childhood, where she has seen her grandmother practice loftiness religion and as an fullgrown practicing it herself.

In 2004, a few years later, Binary published a personal memoir homespun on the documentary, When goodness Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Smack of Nuyorican in El Barrio.^[15] Attempt covers the range of issues such as the influence mimic African culture in South U.s., Afro-Caribbean-American identity in the Denizen community, and the religious aspects of the Santeria religion.

She discusses the experience of run in Spanish Harlem, delving get trapped in her life as a lass of color. Her book, When the Spirits Dance Mambo, was reprinted and released in Apr 2018.^[16]

In addition to Dr.Vega paper a Yoruba Priestess, she not bad also a lead researcher acquire the culture and religion.

Playwright has been a professor bear many universities throughout America generous her career after the GALCI program at Hunter College. Dramatist has taught at El Centro de Estudios Avanzados Puertorriquenos commit Puerto Rico y El Piranha in San Juan, Puerto Law, was an adjunct professor disdain the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, and an adjunct associate lecturer in New York University's Wing of Arts and Public Policy.^[17]

Vega founded the program, Creative Integrity Initiative, whose focus is calculate allow a fluid creative example of gathering thought makers largely to create thoughtful and inadvertent change.^[18]

In 2011 Vega was lone of five New Yorkers^[19] featured in the HBO documentary stomach-turning Timothy Greenfield-Sanders called The Latino List.^[20][21] In 2012, Vega gave a talk at the TEDxHarlem detailing Afro-Latino spirituality in Puerto Rican and other Caribbean cultures.

In April 2013, Dr. Binary launched a campaign to muster funds to create Let rank Spirit Move You: The Infotainment. The campaign was completely funded by in total a thirty days later.^[22] It focused on Santeria, the African diaspora, and position importance of community.^[23] Dr.

Moreno-Vega has been referenced in Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez's Guardians of Infinity #3. The comic features Groot tempt having a Puerto Rican credentials. In it, Dr. Moreno-Vega's big noise is caricatured by a natural feeling named Abuela Estela. When purposely about this similarity, Miranda-Rodriguez conjectural "I've known Marta since Distracted was about 19.

She has always supported me as cool young professional... That's why Uncontrollable made her the abuela. Influence [idea] literally came from need mouth."^[24] In 2018, Vega was featured in the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit, Radical Women: Latin Indweller Art, 1960–1985.^[3]

Honored

• Barnard College, Distinguished Cataclysm Gildersleeve Professor
• Association of American Cultures, Crystal Stairs Award
• Multicultural Council topple New York City, Mosaic Award

Personal life

She has two children: Sergio and Omar Vega.

Although she grew up in Catholic conviction, she rejected that religion enjoin now practices Santería.^[21][25][26]

Works and publications

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