Speakers

Tizziana Baldenebro is the executive director at the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. An nonprofit administrator, curator, writer, and critic, she is an activist in the effort to produce equitable cultural centers. Previously, she was the Commissioner and Curator for the U.S. pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and served as the executive director at SPACES in Cleveland. She has held positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and at the Art Institute of Chicago within the Architecture & Design department. She sat on the board of FRONT International and is an editor-at-large at The Avery Review. She was a 2021 fellow in the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture Advocacy Leadership Institute and was a 2021 curator-in-residence at Red Bull Arts Detroit. Baldenebro received a Masters of Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.