New Jersey

Immigrant Labor Monuments

Leonardo Vazquez

Leonardo Vazquez | NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor, njmml.com

Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, has worked for more than three decades to enhance quality of life, advance economic equity and promote social justice in communities. He carries a wide-ranging perspective from his career as a journalist, urban planner who specializes in community economic development, leadership coach, educator, creative placemaker, and nonprofit executive. As Executive Director of […]

Susanna V. Temkin

Susanna V. Temkin | NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor, njmml.com

Susanna V. Temkin is Interim Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York and holds a PhD. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. At El Museo, she has curated or co-curated exhibitions including the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, Culture and the People (2019); Estamos Bien – La Trienal (2020-2021); DOMESTICANX […]

Patricia Eunji Kim

Patricia Eunji Kim | NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor, njmml.com

Patricia Eunji Kim is Assistant Professor at New York University. Dr. Kim’s research, teaching, and curatorial projects explore questions of gender, race, monumentality, and memory in antiquity and in the present. Her monograph, The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World (Cambridge University Press, 2025), is the first book-length study on the visual and material […]

Kathleen Ogilvie Greene

Kathleen Ogilvie Greene | NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor, njmml.com

Kathleen Ogilvie Greene is a trained visual artist leading with her creative and improvisational practice as Chief Audience Officer at Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) in Hamilton, NJ. Greene is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of creating sustainable institutional impact through system creation alongside community-centered engagement through program and curatorial practice. Her work plays […]

Nina Cooke John

Nina Cooke John | NJ Monuments to Migration and Labor, njmml.com

Nina Cooke John is the founding principal of Studio Cooke John Architecture and Design, a multidisciplinary design studio that values placemaking as a way to transform relationships between people and the built environment. Studio Cooke John’s Shadow of A Face, the Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark, NJ was unveiled in March 2023.  The studio was awarded a […]