| ISPA Emerging Leader Award Recipient - Denisse Flores Somarriba |
ISPA Award Recipient Denisse Flores Somarriba2024 Emerging Leader Award Recipient Denisse has 17 years of experience in the arts and culture sectors. This is only possible thanks to her passionate and focused belief in art’s transformative powers, an ailment she happily shares with the souls in this hall. Through her work at the University of Guadalajara Denisse has made key contributions to Mexico’s cultural landscape bringing her drive, passion and experience to flagship projects such as the Santander Performing Arts Centre, the Guadalajara International Book Fair and festivals such as the International Theater Festival for the Early Years, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Bogota Ibero-American Theater Festival, Circulart (Medellín) and the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo. During her masters at King’s College London in 2015, Denisse completed an internship with the British Council as it lead the UK’s guest of honour appearance at Guadalajara’s International Book Fair. This allowed her to have an invaluable inside view of the Council’s savoir-faire, work culture and love of “friday wine”. Denisse heads the University of Guadalajara’s Culture Innovation and Liaising Unit where she works in two directions: Inwards, the Unit promotes outreach and engagement with the University’s 320K+ student community through governance and data analytics. Outwards, the Unit promotes international collaborations that increase programming opportunities, educational activities and professional liaising in benefit of Guadalajara artists. She is a 2010 Kennedy Center for the Arts Fellows and a proud ISPA member since 2010 serving in several committees along the way and spearheading ISPA’s 2019 summer conference in Guadalajara. |
