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Terezita “Tere” Romo

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    Lecturer and Affiliate Faculty in the Chicana/o Studies Department at University of California, Davis

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    Terezita “Tere” Romo is a Lecturer and Affiliate Faculty in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC, Davis. An art historian, she has published extensively on Chicana/o artists and art, most recently as a contributor to the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition catalog, ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now. She has served as the chief curator at the Mexican Museum in San Francisco and the Arts Project Director at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago as well as Arts Programs Director and Research Associate at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. As an independent curator, Terezita has organized numerous exhibitions, including “Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican American Generation” at the Autry National Museum in Los Angeles and “Reframing Comunidad: The Art of Ester Hernandez and Shizu Saldamando” at the National Museum of Mexican Art. She is the co-curator of “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche.”