Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez
Archival Collections Manager
Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez is the Archival Collections Manager at the Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora at CENTRO. Cristina’s work is focused on participatory and non-hierarchical ways of knowledge-seeking and making through archival practice. In addition to her work at CENTRO, Cristina teaches at various graduate Archives programs in NYC. Previous to coming to CENTRO, Cristina was Visiting Assistant Professor and Institute Archivist at Pratt Institute and is a former fellow for the National Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information. She is a founding member of Archivistas en Espanglish, a collective dedicated to amplifying spaces of memory-building between Latin America and Latinx communities in the US and co-runs Barchives, an independent outreach initiative that brings archivists to bars to talk about New York City’s archival collections and local history. Cristina holds a BA in Geography from Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Río Piedras and a Master’s in Library Science with a certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from CUNY Queens College.