Staff 

Tere Paniagua
Director

Alexander Paredes
Administration & Operations                  

Samantha Hefti
Collections Management

María Margarita Musante
Fund Development & Grants Coordination

Daniela Dorado
Communications

Bennie Guzman
Education Programming

Point of Contact operates in collaboration with the Office of Cultural Engagement for the Hispanic Community at Syracuse University.

Board of Directors

Emily Dittman, Chair
Director, SU Art Museum

Jules Gibbs, Vice Chair
Poet; Adjunct Faculty, Syracuse University, Department of English

Maritza Bautista, Secretary
Executive Director, Daphne Art Foundation

Brenda Teruya, Treasurer
Economist; Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University

Jacob Gedetsis
Coordinator of the Writing Resource Center & Lecturer, SUNY ESF

Juan Juárez
Visual Artist; Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of Texas, El Paso

Joseph Kugielsky
Visual Artist

Cristina Pardo Porto
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Latinx Literature & Culture

Matías Roth
Filmmaker, Photographer and Cultural Coordinator, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina

José Sanjinés
Author; Professor of Communication, Media & Culture, Coastal Carolina University

Advisory Board

Maritza Alvarado, MD
Specialist in Pediatrics and Neonatology

Josefa Álvarez
Department Chair of Foreign Languages, Le Moyne College

Jorge Davidenko MD
Specialized in Cardiology and Internal Medicine, with established practice in Cortland, NY.

Christine Fawcett-Shapiro
Executive Director of The Syracuse International Film Festival

Liliana Porter
Visual Artist

Owen Shapiro
Filmmaker and Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University
Artistic Director of the Syracuse International Film Festival

Ana Tiscornia
Visual Artist