Festival Director and Artistic Director of “Enjoy Jazz – International Festival for Jazz and More”, which he also founded in 1999. As the Representative of the Executive Mayor of Mannheim and his Special Advisor Global and UN Affairs he is responsible for the setup and strategic development of the new worldwide network/platform “Global Parliament of Mayors” (GPM) which was launched in 2016.
Peruvian lawyer, actor, film director, and politician. He served as Prime Minister of his country from March to September 2019. He was previously Minister of Culture, in 2017. The first Peruvian actor to be appointed Primer Minister, del Solar worked to enact the National Policy of Aboriginal Languages, Oral Tradition and
Intercultural Approaches, and served during a period of political confrontation between the legislative and executive branches of government.
Tom Osborn graduated from Harvard College in 2020 with a BA degree in Psychology. His work focuses on interventions that provide young people in Sub Saharan Africa with an opportunity to secure important life outcomes. He has worked on mental health, academic and social support interventions through the Shamiri Institute. Tom plans to roll out Pre-Texts within the education system in Kenya in the next couple of years. Read more about Tom here.
He is an Afro-Colombian research scholar. With a BA in Linguistics and Literature and with a Ph. D in Social Anthropology. He's been avocated to study daily racism manifestation towards Afro-descendant communities in Colombia, Mexico and Belize. His focus areas include anti-racism through art practices, cultural policy, and cultural mobilisation among Afro-descendant groups. Additionally, he conducts research on language and cultures, speech, and daily communicative interactions. Currently, he is exploring the use of technology in social research through an approach called Digital Ethnography about the reception of anti-racist art practices in Colombia. He is also working on researching Afro-contemporary dance, anti-racist approach and black mobilisation in Colombia with black youth dancers in both rural and urban areas of Colombia.
Chiara Caiazzo is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), and a Fellow in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University during the 2024 Spring Term. Her dissertation, titled Can Art Spark a Revolution? Confronting Rancière’s Aisthesis, proposes a reexamination of Rancière’s politico-aesthetic theory through the lenses of philosophical hermeneutics. Exploring the intertwining of artistic and political practices is essential to reveal how cultural interventions can disclose absent emergencies and provide tools to navigate contemporary crises. She combines her research with her own artistic practice. Her work primarily focuses on experimental filmmaking, portrait photography, and digital illustration.
Francisco Alvarez is a Goldsmith, RCCHU, and Rose fellow student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, graduating in 2024 as a Master of Public Health. During his practicum in Ecuador, concerned by the high toll on mental health that the scale of violence and instability in Ecuador created, he ran several Pre-Text workshops raising mental health awareness in school settings. Through Pre-Text, he gathered more than 30 school directors, educators, and health professionals from private and public schools in his country to learn, explore, and destigmatize mental health care. Through this project, mental health awareness and promotion are propelled by the power of Pre-Text, transforming school classrooms into dynamic spaces that foster creativity, reduce anxiety, and enhance literacy.
Héctor earned his Bachelor's in Science at the University of Puerto Rico, specializing in biochemistry and molecular biology with a focus on neuroscience-related Alzheimer disease. Pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, led a groundbreaking thesis project, developing a small molecule to protect brain cells. Since 2023, I have collaborated with Professor Doris Sommer, founder of Cultural
Agents. Our collaboration has involved learning and implementing Pre-texts pedagogy in Spanish, leading to multiple successful initiatives impacting the Latino community in Boston and Puerto Rico.
Executive Director Executive Director of NEW AMERICANS MUSEUM INC, CEO of LCS Enterprises, partner Toltec Media Group. Post grad candidate: Harvard Kennedy School, MC-MPA program; advanced certifications in public policy, London School of Economics, Chicago Booth school of business.
Luis Reyes, Peruvian social anthropologist, assistant professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM). He obtained his doctorate at the National Museum of Brazil of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (MN/UFRJ). Reyes is also founder of the Seminar of Afro-Peruvian Studies at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and is a member of the Nucleus of Symmetrical Anthropology (NAnSi) at the MN/UFRJ and the Archeology of Science and Andean technologies at the UNMSM. 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Afro-Latin American Studies (Alari), Harvard University.
Trained in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, he has provided care on general medicine, cardiology, oncology, and critical care services. He also provided primary care in a community-based health center at Codman Square Health Center. He is now training in cardiovascular medicine. Beyond clinical medicine, he is experienced in practice redesign and driving health delivery innovation to provide patient-centric, equitable, and effective care. His background in business, policy, and law provides critical insights to understand and identify opportunities to transform systems of care to optimize for value and access, with a focus on underserved communities and populations.
Doris Sommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. She is founder of Cultural Agents, an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving the civic mission of the Humanities.
Professor of Art and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He received his Doctorate in 2010 from Harvard University. His latest academic publications include "The Great Swindle: A Project by Santiago Montoya" (2014) and "Ad Usum / To be used: The Works of Pedro Reyes" (2017). His monograph on Mexican artist Pia Camil, There are no Friendly Fires, will be published in 2022.
Mixtli is a specialist in Communications. She was responsible for the organization of a training workshop for Community Leaders and Education and Cultural Workers in Buenos Aires (2019). With Tálata Rodríguez, she was responsible for the first digital training workshop with a base in Argentina and helped adapting the Facilitator Manual for the digital protocol (2020).
