Karen Crews Hendon is Director of Exhibitions and Senior Curator at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Tovaangar territory/ Los Angeles, California. She has worked as a museum curator, exhibition designer, and arts educator for the past twenty years in California institutions, private collections, and universities. Her curatorial focus bridge culturally rooted contemporary art and visual anthropology, and her research interests include multi-disciplinary media that explore narratives of marginality, hybrid identity, and cultural empowerment that aims to shift perception and generate cross-cultural connections.