Get to know other state humanities council staff from around the nation! Join Nevada Humanities on Thursday, October 30, 2025, at 12:00 pm PT for a conversation with mariana moscoso, Senior Program Officer at California Humanities. During this livestreamed event, we will discuss the importance of the arts and humanities, public humanities programming in California, and more. During the first hour of this program, we will play the logic puzzle game Is This Seat Taken? before moving onto a Q&A in the second hour.
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mariana moscoso (ja’/elle/they) is a nonbinary reconnecting Indigenous queer of Achi (Maya), Nicānāhuac, and Afro-Indigenous roots living on the traditional lands of the Nisenan, Maidu, Miwok, and Pawtin peoples. They are a cultural practitioner, storyteller, digital artist, zine maker, and emerging weaver whose work centers Maya Cosmology. A poet and published writer, their work appears in Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento and Weaving Our Stories: Return to Belonging. Mariana’s experience spans arts administration, research, and evaluation, with a commitment to justice in the arts and culture sector. They co-created Toj + Tijax: The Ritual of Myth Making, an Indigenous queer healing space. Their practice weaves storytelling, ancestral wisdom, and community connections.
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