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. 

Dr. Tina Zarpour (she/her) joined the San Diego History Center in March 2015 and currently serves as the Vice President of Education, Collections and Community Engagement. Tina holds a Master in Applied Anthropology and a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her interests lie at the nexus of participatory and community-based archiving, collections management, cultural heritage, exhibitions, and constructivist learning approaches. Tina’s academic expertise is with immigrant communities and the histories of immigration, and has two decades of experience as a museum leader in cultural institutions across the country, including the Museum of Man, the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas and with the Program in Latino History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She was a 2004 Fellow with the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program. Her work has focused on making museums more accountable and accessible to the communities they serve, and in creating spaces for histories excluded from conventional narratives. Tina continues to believe in the creative and emancipatory potential of memory work and story keeping.

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.