Dr. Monxo Lopez
Secretary
Monxo López is a museum curator, urban thinker, educator, cartographer, and South Bronx-based environmental and urban justice activist. He is currently a Mellon Foundation fellow at the curatorial department of the Museum of the City of New York. He has taught Latinx Studies and political science in Hunter College, and was a Mapping Fellow at the Design Trust for Public Spaces.
Monxo is a founding member of South Bronx Unite and the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards, the first local community land trust in The Bronx. He also currently serves as a board member of the Cooper Square Community Land Trust in the Lower East Side.
He is regularly invited to lecture and collaborate in urban planning and community organizing courses, and in architectural studios and juries for institutions such as Syracuse University, MIT, CUNY’s City College, Penn State, and Pratt Institute.
He holds a Ph.D. in political science from CUNY’s Graduate Center, and an MA from Université Laval in Québec, Canada. His academic research revolves around spatiality, mapping, social justice, political theory, and Latino communities. Monxo’s political writings on spatial and social justice have been published in Salon.com, LatinoRebels, and NACLA, among other media outlets. His activist work has been profiled by The New York Times, UrbanOmnibus, and Corriere della Sera.
He was born and grew up in Puerto Rico, and lives in Mott Haven, the South Bronx.