Inmagela Rivas Abreu
Graduate Assistant
Fall 2023 to Spring 2024
About
Inmagela Abreu is a trans non-binary person from Dominican Republic and a Fulbright student of the Master in Museum and Exhibition Studies'24 with a focus on social justice at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). In 2023, Inmagela was part of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program Graduate Summer Fellowship cohort at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and Chicago Creatives for Justice Arts Fellowship with Grassroots Collaborative Chicago; earned Cook County Master training Naturalist with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Wilderness Midwestern Ecological Prescription Burn Crew Member Training with Lake County Forest Preserves. Inmagela is an activist, artist, researcher and volunteer. They worked in the Centro Cultural Eduardo Léon Jimenes from 2017 to 2022 as an intern in education, Visual Arts and Exhibitions Assistant and Research Assistant. Their research work and activism include imperialism, Caribbean art, social and environmental justice, education, visual anthropology, social history, among others. They are currently a Graduate Assistant at the UIC Latino Cultural Center and volunteer in Collections at the Field Museum, Chicago. In Autumn 2024, Inmagela will be a student for the Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).