Arturo Méndez-Reyes is a cultural producer, curator, visual artist, musician, and community organizer advancing cultural equity in San Francisco. Founder of community empowering projects, including Arts.Co.Lab, La Diáspora Festival, and Urban Prophets Illustrated, as well as producer for the Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP) since 2016, Arturo has curated shows for the Exploratorium, Harvard and Cornell universities, and the United Nations. The recipient of many grants and awards, his work strives to create generative narratives to empower people through arts and culture for collective joy and liberation and to advocate for institutional policies and practices that center the voices of people from the most vulnerable communities.