Speaker bio

Jessica Sevilla is an artist, researcher, and cultural organizer whose work investigates landscape through a focus on water flows and power relations in the Colorado River Delta region. She works across short fiction, visual essays, and installation art, and coordinates the Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado—an artistic research platform founded in 2021 that seeks to generate situated knowledge and foster collective awareness of ecological change in the region. She studied Architecture at the Autonomous University of Baja California (FAD UABC), a Master’s degree in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Doctorate in Socio-Cultural Studies program at the Institute of Cultural Research–Museum of the Autonomous University of Baja California (IIC–Museo UABC).