Career Development Office, Center for Civic Engagement, La Voz, and Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Present

Conversations and Lunch with Lexi Parra ’18

Lexi Parra ’18 is a Venezuelan-American photographer and community educator based between Caracas and New York. Her work focuses on youth culture, migration, the personal effects of inequality and violence, and themes of resilience. Parra has worked with the Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and others. 

She is the community manager at Women Photograph, as well as a member of both WP and Diversify Photo databases. Parra has received  a Diversify x Getty Inclusion Grant (2022) and is a Pulitzer Center Reporting Grantee (2021). Her degree is in photography and human rights from Bard College. 

Parra is the founder of Project MiRA, an arts education initiative that fosters visual literacy and critical analysis with youth in the barrios of Caracas. Project MiRA has been supported by Canon USA and the Davis Peace Prize. 

Read an interview with Lexi Parra ’18 by Lauren Rodgers ’27 for the CCE blog.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Campus Center, George Ball Lounge

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