Dr. AnaMaria Correa

Dr. AnaMaria Correa is an educator, cultural worker, and community builder whose work lives at the intersection of equity, storytelling, and collective wellbeing. As a first-generation Latine woman of color, her journey is deeply informed by lived experience and a commitment to creating spaces where people encounter belonging, recognition, and possibility. She approaches her work as a scholar in practice—someone who bridges theory and action—drawing from her background in the arts, narrative scholarship, and urban education to design experiences that center story, inquiry, and meaningful connection.

Across her career in schools, arts institutions, and nonprofit spaces, AnaMaria has led work that translates equity into lived, relational practice. Whether guiding institutional strategy, designing programs, or working alongside young people, she brings a creative and rigorous approach that honors identity and expands imagination. At the heart of her work is a deep sense of stewardship—of relationships, of stories, and of the conditions that allow individuals and communities to thrive. She shows up with clarity, care, and intention, balancing empathy with strong boundaries to build trust and sustainability in shared spaces.

Through the Acosta Institute Fellowship, AnaMaria enters a community aligned with her commitment to collective growth and accountability. She brings both grounded wisdom and joy into this space, along with a desire to continue deepening how storytelling, equity, and relational leadership can shape more just and life-affirming environments. During her time in the Fellowship, she hopes to further explore how communities can be intentionally cultivated as spaces of reciprocity, imagination, and shared transformation.