[Nuestros beneficiarios] Están reclamando tierras, culturas y lenguas. Y están imaginando y llevando a cabo formas de ser "sin frontera" que tienen relevancia más allá de la región fronteriza.

Casandra Hernandez Faham es asociada de programas en el área de arte y cultura de Mellon. 

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Casandra Hernández Faham reflexiona sobre la razón de la iniciativa más reciente de Mellon que apoya el trabajo artístico y cultural en la región fronteriza de los EE. UU. y México.

Arts and Culture

Casandra Hernandez Faham is a program associate for Mellon’s Arts and Culture grantmaking area.

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Program Associate

Casandra Hernández Faham

La iniciativa Mellon que apoya a artistas y líderes culturales que imaginan formas de ser “sin fronteras”

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 

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