Claudia zapata biography

Claudia E Zapata is a Queer Chicanx artist and curator known as one of the co-founders of the Puro Chingón Collective, which develops BIPOC zines and designer toys.
Claudia E Zapata is a Queer Chicanx artist and curator known as one of the co-founders of the Puro Chingón Collective, which develops BIPOC zines and.
Claudia Zapata (Democratic Party) ran for election to the US House to represent Texas' 21st Congressional District.

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As a child of immigrants, Claudia Zapata-Cardone’s journey to becoming an Airbus 319/320 Captain is a remarkable story of grit, passion, and her parents’ steadfast belief in the American Dream. She is living proof that becoming a commercial pilot can be achieved, regardless of one’s socio-economic background, race, and gender.

Captain Zapata-Cardone credits her father, Jesus Zapata, for inspiring her to join the aviation industry. He immigrated to Queens, New York from Zarzal, Colombia, in the early 1960s, later serving in South Korea during the Vietnam War. When he returned, he was granted US citizenship and found a job in New York City at the Singer Corporation’s logistics division.

In 1971, Zapata-Cardone’s mother, Gladys Zapata, emigrated from Colombia to Queens as a recently divorced, single mother of two in search of a better life. She worked various factory jobs, eventually becoming a tool and dye maker. As fate would have it, Gladys and Jesus would meet at a New Year’s Eve party, and Claudia Zapata-Cardone was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1974.

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Claudia Elena Urrego Zapata

Claudia Elena Urrego Zapata is a research scholar in the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication at NHH.

She holds a master’s degree in Translation from Universidad de Antioquia (2017). Her bachelor’s degrees include degrees in civil engineering and translation.

Her research interests focus on the relationships between translating scientific texts and the assumed universality of language, the history of translation, cultural transfer, and agents of translation. Her work experience includes translating, reviewing, editing, proofreading, teaching, and managing a university translation agency for 4 years.

Her current research focuses on a Pre-Editing Perspective of Translation, reflecting on how, despite all the narrative about NMT eventually disregarding the agency of translators and the promises of higher levels of current systems, human intervention is still very much needed in all the aspects related to translation and edition.

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CLAUDIA ELISA ZAPATA Claudiaelisazapata@gmail.com Claudiaelisazapata.com Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION 2022 Ph.D., Art History, Program in Rhetorics of Art Space, and Culture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Dissertation: “Chicano Art is Not Dead: The Politics of Curating Chicano Art in Major U.S. Exhibitions, 2008-2012” Advisor: Dr. Roberto Conduru 2009 M.A., Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Thesis: “Calakmul Women” Advisor: Dr. David Stuart 2005 B.A., Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2023-Present Associate Curator of Latino Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2012-Present Co-Founder and Manager Puro Chingón Collective, LLC 2010-Present Independent Curator, United States 2022-2023 UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2018-2022 Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 2019 Bibliographer, TRANSAMERICA/N: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, June 20-September