OFN welcomes Timothy Herrera as the new program coor
dinator. Timothy recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon and has previous experience as a program coordinator for Centro Latino Americano. In addition to bringing deep skills for working reciprocally with communities, Timothy is a Spanish speaker. He will be the primary contact for the Traditional Arts and Apprenticeship Program (TAAP), the Cultural Keepers Roster, Culture Fest, and the Statewide Survey.
As the new program coordinator, Timothy has helped execute our Oregon Culture Night series in the month of August. He has help coordinate the translations of TAAP guidelines, did bilingual outreach for the 2023 call for applications, helped develop a newsletter specifically for the artists on our Cultural Keepers Roster, has conducted an interview in Spanish while simultaneously doing English interpretation for the statewide survey, is supervising student employees and interns, and is currently helping equity & inclusion initiatives with the public programs team at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
Timothy expressed: “I am grateful for this opportunity to serve the diverse communities of Oregon; to collaborate with state’s cultural keepers and helping address any needs they may have so that they can sustainably continue their traditions; to use the ethnographic skills that I have developed for public programming purposes; and to further develop OFN’s relationships with Oregon’s vast Spanish speaking communities”
We are excited to welcome him to the OFN team, to support our programs, and to better serve Oregon’s Spanish speaking traditional artists!