Marietta Ulacia

Marietta Ulacia joined the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance in May of 2014. Ms. Ulacia is a Cuban-born arts administrator and artist with over 20 years of experience in the non-profit cultural field. She spent fifteen years in the Washington DC area where she was the Executive Director of the Latin American Folk Institute and worked in partnership with numerous music, theater and dance groups and organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, Gala Hispanic Theater, the Washington Performing Arts Society, the InSeries, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and her own Afro-Cuban dance and music ensemble. In 2006 Ms. Ulacia moved to New York to work as Executive Director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation. She was later in charge of institutional fundraising at the former Dance Theater Workshop, currently New York Live Arts, and later led the Development and the Performing Arts department of the Museum for African Art. Most recently, Ms. Ulacia served as the Director of Development for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, leading their transition to non-profit fundraising.

Ms. Ulacia is a graduate of the prestigious Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana, Cuba, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Visual Media and a Master’s Degree in Arts Management from American University in Washington, DC. Her work as an independent artist and producer includes serving as advisor to the annual FLIC Festival in Brooklyn, a platform for New York choreographers and performance artists.