Libertad O. Guerra -cognitive and urban anthropologist, educator, social and art researcher/historian, and hostess of the Bronx Salon series, a heady locale for lush lounging and distilled discussion on placemaking issues and transcultural horizons in the private-meets public-environment of her Mott Haven brick-house. With the precept of "the South Bronx is an art site and a life site: we cite in and re-cite it", the Bronx Salon was launched in 2006 to propel mingling between un-habitual participants -from academics, environmental activists to community residents and subway musicians- the series was praised by professor and public intellectual Marshall Berman in an issue of Dissent 2007.
 
In 2003 she co-founded 'Spanic Attack (serving as its director), a New York City based organism built on a Latin/o American sensibility to transcend the lived solitude of migrant artists when confronted by the annoying strategies of industry and the false choice that art without sponsorship is non-viable. Until 2008 'Spanic Attack operated as a multi-arts collective by catalyzing happenings, exhibitions, panels and festivals that denoted the dissonance between the body and the city [SCENE/SEEN] as a [LOST] density of space. ‘Spanic Attack was consulted and invited to curate events by the Spanish Cultural Embassy in Lima and the House of World Cultures in Berlin, among others. 
Today, the collaborative framework is still active as a co-production endeavor of hybrid analog-digital poetics; partaker in projects/arte-facts from poetry to performance, community exchange to soundtracks. 
 
Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Libertad Guerra earned her B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, holds an M.A. from Université Laval in Québec, and a second master’s from NYU. She currently teaches within the CUNY system and during the last two years has been archival researcher and organizer of the Re-membering Loisaida Project : the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Rican sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown Scene  at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.