Dr. Catalina Hernández-Cabal (she/her) is a Colombian-American feminist artist, educator, and scholar whose work is rooted in dance improvisation, somatic practices, collaborative performance, and speculative mapping and archiving. Her interdisciplinary practice explores place-making, embodied knowledge, interdependence, and pedagogy across both formal educational contexts and community-based settings. Committed to feminist knowledge and pedagogy, she grounds her work in partnerships, collaboration, and multiple forms of dialogue. She has co-edited two books on artistic research and pedagogy, and her creative scholarship has appeared in journals such as Feminist Pedagogy and Women & Performance, among other academic and artistic venues. With an interdisciplinary and diasporic background, she earned her PhD in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also pursued graduate concentrations in Gender Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Dance.
