Associate Director of Communications and Operations

MA, International Human Rights (Sciences PO, Paris France)

BA, Political Science (CSULA)

Marlené Nansi Lopez has over ten years experience in blending community organizing and the arts. For this work, she has won several prestigious accolades including the United Nations Plural Plus award for “Most Artistic” film during her tour with the Peace Corps, to her most recent certification as a “Cultural Bearer” with the county of Los Angeles. Her unique approach and vision of a liberated creative world was first formulated as a child of Guatemalan migrants, who were part of the Mayan-artist diaspora in MacArthur Park Los Angeles. When she is not in the lab, Marlené continues to spread the arts through community muralism and teaching. Welcome to the team Marlené!