Fernanda Espinosa

Fernanda Espinosa is an oral historian, researcher, and cultural worker with extensive experience in building relationships and collaborating with Latinx communities in the United States. She creates, produces, and participates in cultural projects that focus on listening and documenting memory. Since 2014, she has conducted, listened to, and interpreted dozens of interviews in English and Spanish for museum and archival projects, and to inspire creative activations. Fernanda holds a master’s degree in oral history from Columbia University, where her thesis won the Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Award and she has worked as an independent oral historian on projects at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and National Museum of American History. She is a co-founder and collaborator of Circular Projects, an initiative working at the intersection of language justice, research, and oral history and a cofounding member of the Cooperativa Cultural 1/19 (CC 1/19) collective, an itinerant collaboration in visual arts and oral transmission. She recently received the Stanford-CCSR Latinx Art and The Latinx Project Public Humanities fellowships. In 2022, she was awarded an Oral History Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under which she launched the In Colors artist interview project.