Review Panel

Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead; The Seas, about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, a collection of short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a blue-ribbon winner of the Montgomery Place Pie contest. She has been a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is mother to three, sister to five. She is a gardener and beekeeper; a singer and forest enthusiast in upstate New York.

Berlin Reed is an independent curator, author, community organizer, and chef based outside of Tiohtià:Ke/Montréal. A Brooklyn transplant raised near Seattle, his roots in the language of gastronomy sprouted in 2009, when Berlin began curating multidimensional pop-ups in artistic ecosystems from San Francisco to Brooklyn to Montreal — culminating in the 2013 publication of his memoir, The Ethical Butcher: How Thoughtful Eating Can Change Your World. As a 2023 fellow of both the Toronto-based Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism and the New York-based Art for Artists, Berlin creates spaces and opportunities for interactions between multiple disciplines without regard for conventional lines between curator and artist, always seeking to clear space for a more challenging, engaging, and immersive audience experience. His collaborative installations with transdisciplinary artists take advantage of the ability to infiltrate the viewer’s world through sensorial works. Berlin’s current focus is “On Rupture,” a curatorial research project consisting of experimental practice, collective projects, and exhibition development in residencies across the world in the interest of interrogating the role of independent curators in dismantling oppressive norms within art institutions.

Alex Santana is a writer, editor, and curator with an interest in conceptual art, political intervention, and public participation. Currently based in New York but originally from Newark, NJ, she has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Joan Mitchell Center, Mana Contemporary, and Alexander Gray Associates. Her interviews and essays have been published by Hyperallergic, CUE Art Foundation, Terremoto Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Precog Magazine, NXTHVN, and Artsy. She is currently Associate Editor for Intervenxions, a publication of The Latinx Project at NYU.

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Elena Muñoz-Rodriguez is Assistant Curator, Latinx & Latin American Art at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey. Muñoz-Rodriguez received her Master’s in Art History from Rutgers University. Her research and practice are focused on colonialism, migration, and syncretism in the Caribbean. At NMOA, she has worked on the exhibitions Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision and Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the Empathic Universe, as well as reinterpreting the Museum’s newly reopened historical 18th & 19th Century American galleries. Her current projects include the long-term installation “The Spanish Caribbean Body”, and an exhibition and accompanying publication with artist Bony Ramirez (April 2024). Prior to working at NMOA, Muñoz-Rodriguez was the Research & Curatorial Assistant at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum where she worked on Gateways/Portales. She was also the recipient of a Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship.

Kenneth Reveiz is a poet, screenwriter, and literary translator from New York City who works in the service of racial and economic justice. Of Colombian heritage, Kenneth is the author of three graphic design collaboration limited edition prints of their poetry, most recently CULTURAL CHANGE IN USA (Queer.Archive.Work, 2021), and has performed and curated in venues and communities across the United States. At the age of 27 they were elected to the Board of Alders, the legislative body for the City of New Haven, and as the Alder for Ward 14 they helped secure the passage of historic legislation to increase police accountability. Kenneth is a graduate of Yale University, where they received Bates, Cornell, Courture, and Yale-O’Neill Fellowships for their research and writing. They received their M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts, where they were awarded a Lillian Disney Scholarship and a Truman Capote Fellowship. Kenneth’s debut poetry collection, MOPES: A Book of Poems in Three Acts, was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. It is now available.

Sarah Tortorich is an accomplished art professional working in the fine art industry as the Registrar & Director of Operations at Rachel Uffner Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She is known for her hands-on and personable approach to organizing installations, exhibitions, and fairs, ensuring that the artists and their work are the focus. Sarah's expertise extends to maintaining comprehensive inventory and archive systems, both physical and digital, which provides decades of knowledge and reference to various groundbreaking exhibitions and important pieces throughout the gallery’s history. Most recently, Sarah has been nominated for Registrar of the Year and has been asked to be a Guest Speaker at Sotheby’s Institute in New York for their master’s course in Collection Management & Logistics.