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Mauricio Delfin (He/Him) is a Research and Communications Consultant at the Center for Artistic Activism and a member of the Artistic Activism Research Co-Lab.
He is a specialist in cultural governance, civil society, and civic technologies, with experience in social science research and arts management. Mauricio is interested in cultural democracy and social justice, linking civic engagement with open cultural governance. He was a Vanier Scholar, an OAS Open Government Fellow, and a fellow of the Latin American Open Data Initiative. He is a current member of UNESCO’s 2005 Convention Expert Facility.
Stephen Duncombe (He/Him) is Professor of Media and Culture at New York University and author and editor of nine books and numerous articles on the intersection of culture and politics. Duncombe, a life-long political activist, co-founded a community based advocacy group in the Lower East Side of Manhattan which won an award for “Creative Activism” from the Abbie Hoffman Foundation, and is currently co-founder and Research Director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training organization that helps activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists.