Lina Giraldo

Lina Maria Giraldo is a Colombian-born, Boston-based designer, interactive media artist, and storyteller with a Co-design, Civic Media, Art, and Technology background. Her work focuses on interactive storytelling for social change through data visualization, grassroots storytelling, public installations, and computer-generated work. In her last project, “Data Para Todes” she collaborated with first-generation Latine college students to collect, analyze, clean, and visualize data.

Giraldo’s achievements include being a Journalist in Residence at Emerson College, Artist in Residency for the City of Boston (Boston AIR 2.0), recipient of the Now + There accelerator program for creating Public Art at the City of Boston, the receiver of the Creative City Grant, the Hispanic Scholarship Foundation Grant, the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation grant, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Grant, and Faculty Advancement Fund Grant.

Giraldo was a part of the award-winning educational website JFK50.org team while working as an Interaction Designer at ESI Design. She was also awarded the Tsongas Scholarship at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been covered in various media, including The Boston Globe, ABC News, The Artery, Artlink, WBUR, WGBH, and NPR.