Veronica Melendez (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Her work centers the afterlives of Civil War, migration, and Mesoamerican Indigenous imaginaries. Her projects weave between original photography, archival imagery, collage, oral history, and stop motion animation. These mediums allow her to delve into the hybridity that comes with living in the diaspora. Having ancestral roots in Guatemala and El Salvador and growing up in Washington D.C. she is constantly faced with the complex ideation of home in a city that is deeply tied to her family’s history of displacement. Veronica is a founder of La Horchata, an arts publication highlighting creatives with Central American roots. She was selected for the 2018 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for Documentarians of the American South by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. And was most recently in residence at the Studios at Mass MoCA. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR, VICE, and The Brooklyn Rail among others. The arts publication La Horchata has been exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA and is currently on view at the inaugural exhibition ¡Presente! in the Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.