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2024 annual report
Our History
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center was founded in 1989 by Daisy Rivera and the combined efforts of the Cultural Educational Institute for Boricua Advancement (CEIBA) and the Hispanic Parents Union. These organizations united to realize a long time dream of establishing a family oriented center to serve the Latino youth and their families through programs and activities designed to foster cultural pride and art appreciation.
Mission
The Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center celebrates and strengthens Northeast Ohio’s Latino culture and heritage through arts education, creative expression, and opportunities for artists, youth, and community to connect, grow, and belong.
Vision
Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center envisions a Northeast Ohio:
Where our growing Latino communities thrive, artists prosper, and young people flourish.
Where every generation of Latinos has a cultural home to learn, grow, and lead.
Where, in the spirit of Julia de Burgos, the full breadth of Latino identities is celebrated, and people find connection, pride, and belonging.
Our inspiration
Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos, the poet, the educator, the activist, the feminist, the woman! Yet the greatest gift to us was her life itself- our inspiration! As many renowned scholars assert, her life was the masterpiece of her work. She did not write for her time, but for the readers of the future.
Her strength, individualism, her love, her loyalty for “La Nación”, the culture, the people, and her sense of justice for ALL people is evident in her work. Her sense of justice and freedom and her work towards that goal makes her Julia of all!
MEET THE TEAM
Letitia Lopez
Executive Director
LYDIA DIAZ TORRES
Bookkeeper
Max McMillen
Program Coordinator
Nelena Rodriguez
Program Assistant
Brenda Ventura
Program Assistant
Board of Trustees
Officers
Alicia Love, President
Founder & Principal
People Strategies LLC
Kirby Suntala, Treasurer
Associate Director, Grants Management
The Cleveland Foundation
members
Cindy Crespo, Trustee
Branch Manager - Fulton/Memphis
Key Bank
Jaime Declet, Trustee
South Branch Manager
Cleveland Public Library
Stephen Jakubowski, Trustee
Senior Brand Strategist
Fahlgren Mortine
R.L. "Bob" Render III, Trustee
Recording Secretary, City of Cleveland Housing Board
City of Cleveland Community Relations Board
Precinct Committeeman, Ward 6-T
Community Activist
Yarimilka Rodriguez, Trustee
HRIS Specialist
Cleveland Public Library
Ariel Vergez, Trustee
Artist & Creative Director
Vergez Inc.
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center
2800 Archwood Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44109
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