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This past week, El Museo del Barrio announced that it had appointed Margarita Aguilar to be its next director, beginning Sept.12th .
Rafael Lantigua, M.D., and Dennis Mitchell, D.D.S., M.P.H., have been appointed Dean's Special Advisors for Community Health Affairs effective Mon., Aug. 1st.
In these new roles, Drs. Lantigua and Mitchell will counsel all four medical center deans on community health issues and facilitate new collaborative initiatives with community and academic stakeholders. They also will work closely with the Office of Government and Community Affairs and provide a faculty voice in efforts to engage community health organizations and to optimize academic and community partnerships.
Dr. Lantigua, professor of clinical medicine and associate director of the Division of General Medicine, and Dr. Mitchell, assistant professor of clinical dentistry and senior associate dean of diversity affairs, bring decades of community health experience in Washington Heights, Inwood and Harlem to their new positions.
Dr. Lantigua has served as co-director of the Columbia Community Partnership for Health, part of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and a co-founder of Alianza Dominicana. Dr. Lantigua earned his medical degree at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
Dr. Mitchell helped establish CDM's Community DentCare Network to provide dental services in the community to underserved residents of northern Manhattan who need affordable dental care. Dr. Mitchell earned his doctor of dental surgery degree from Howard University and his master's degree in public health from Columbia.
This past week, El Museo del Barrio also announced that it had appointed Margarita Aguilar to be its next director, beginning Sept.12th .
Aguilar, who served in the curatorial department at El Museo from 1998 to 2006, is currently Vice President and Senior Specialist in Latin American art at Christie’s. Aguilar was selected following an international search, and replaces Julian Zugazagoitia, who is now Director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Georgina M. Nichols, Director of Finance and Administration, has been serving as Interim Director of El Museo.
“Margarita brings a unique combination of proven curatorial excellence and a long connection with El Museo, as well as a broad perspective on the Latin American art world, to her new position as director,” said Tony Bechara, Chair of El Museo’s Board of Trustees in a statement. “We are delighted to welcome her back.”
“I am thrilled to return to El Museo and look forward to increasing our influence throughout the country and the world, as we also deepen our ties to our community here,” said Aguilar.
Her appointment comes two years after the completion of an extensive renovation of El Museo’s home in East Harlem and a year-long celebration of the institution’s 40th anniversary. The renovation and expansion project included the creation of new galleries and public spaces, and was designed to better serve El Museo’s rapidly growing audience, which has increased from 20,000 to over 250,000 annual visitors in the past decade.
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