Sandra Paola López Ramírez (EdM, MFA) is leading the Rubin Center’s emerging Community Engaged Practices in the Arts Program, collaborating with artists, campus and community partners to create opportunities for students to begin to develop meaningful practices that value both aesthetic and relational outcomes. She is an interdisciplinary dancemaker, cultural organizer, improviser, and mother. She was born and raised in the luscious Andes mountains and her relationship to the Andean landscape and her mixed heritage deeply influences her artistic work and activism. Her practice integrates her creative process and her community organizing efforts, creating works that activate public spaces and natural landscapes. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso.