Zion Estrada

Associate Director of Programs

Zion Estrada (she/her) is a cultural strategist, interdisciplinary producer, and artist-researcher with over a decade of experience leading award-winning and groundbreaking creative campaigns across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and West Africa. Her work in programmatic and experiential design has shaped initiatives for institutions and artists including Virgil Abloh’s Off-White™, Nike, Wales Bonner, BLM and MIT—bridging cultural production with deep community engagement and visionary spatial strategy.

In her most recent role as Interim Director of Programs and Lead Curator for the Black Reconstruction Collective, she stewarded a five-state national exhibition tour featuring Black architects and artists, overseeing strategy, fundraising, public engagement, and program delivery. As founder of Black Discourse—a studio rooted in oral tradition, diasporic memory, and spatial justice—she leads creative research and public programming initiatives that span education, curation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Zion is also an experimental filmmaker, sound artist, and experiential designer whose layered works in film and sonic collage have been exhibited at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2024 Rockaway Film Festival, 2024 BAM Black Ante-Aesthetic review, and the 2025 Home:Land exhibition at MOCA. She was a 2024 Ghetto Biennale exhibitor in Jacmel, Haiti and a 2023 MIT Worlding Project fellow. Her curatorial work includes To A Future Space Time by J. Yolande Daniels, on view at Art + Practice on view until September 8th, 2025.

At the core of Zion’s work is a commitment to designing programs, stories, and spaces that generate liberatory connection—across disciplines, across geographies, and across time.