Jenna M. Delgado
Assistant Professor

Brief Biography

Dr. Jenna M. Delgado has been a community-based artist and activist since 1991. She began as a young actor/peer educator with an HIV education theater ensemble serving non traditional and disenfranchised youth throughout Los Angeles County. She continued in social services as a trainer for primary care givers, teaching about socio-cultural issues relevant to marginalized communities, particularly adolescents, affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. Delgado's career focus eventually expanded to include youth development and community based arts-making in educational, conflict, and activist-based settings. As a practitioner and a scholar, Delgado's work in community-based arts collaboration specializes in critical analysis of lived experience, arts pedagogy, and social justice.

Delgado received her PhD from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. Her research in community practice critically analyzes negotiations of subjectivity, process pedagogies, aesthetic hierarchies; and theorizes the relationships between institutional power, disciplinary authority, and notions of efficacy. While at UCLA, Delgado worked closely with the Art & Global Health Center, collaborating on project development and curriculum design for several of its art-based health interventions.

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