About me
Lisandra María Ramos is the Special Assistant to the President, Administration, and Initiatives at SUNY OW. Ms. Ramos served as the Assistant Director of Administration at NYU’s Provostial Institute, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (Hemi), forging spaces of creative inquiry and critical practice that enlivened struggles for justice in the Americas. In her role, she led the operations of the Institute along with Hemi’s large-scale, biannual Encuentros, which gathered around 700 participants in different cities throughout the Americas. An alumna of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, the Women's Project Director's lab, and the National Association of Latinos Arts & Culture’s Leadership Institute (NALAC), Ms. Ramos has also been an instructor for EMERGEnyc, Cornell University, and NYU to name a few.
In addition to her administrative roles and teaching, Ms. Ramos is an artist. One of the Co-Founders and Co-Directors of Fulana, a Latina video, and satire collective, as well as a director, producer, and writer of numerous plays in New York and Washington DC. Her play “Mariposa” was produced at Aaron Davis Hall in NYC. From short stories to theater and film, in 2020 she co-wrote and co-published her first fiction podcast, “Pawn Chain”, a podcast episode included in the series Ochenta Cuentos from Ochenta Studios.
In 2021, she co-curated “Resilience: 2021,” a virtual exhibition of West Harlem Arts, an initiative created to promote and support the collaborations between community arts organizations and celebrate the diversity of cultural programming available to the West Harlem community and its surrounding neighborhoods. Ms. Ramos has also been a contributing writer for several magazines, most recently her article “Allyship in Action: Training for the Apocalypse” was featured as part of Global Fluency Magazine.
Ms. Ramos currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Centro Cívico Cultural Dominicano. She holds a B.A. and M.A., an interdisciplinary degree from Union College and NYU’s Gallatin School respectively, in addition to an M.F.A from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts & Science in creative writing.
