Libia Bianibi

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Libia Bianibi

(she/her)

Deputy Director

Libia Bianibi is a nonprofit worker focused on building resilient organizations. Her career has been in the arts sector where she prioritized advancing racial equity, ethical cultural exchange, and economic justice to contribute to the broader transformation of the sector.

Libia believes in using organizational design to bridge the gap between symbolic values and daily practices of nonprofit organizations as well as recognizing finances as a space of action to advance equitable practices. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Chicago United for Equity and has held appointments in the Equity Advisory Committee for the City of Chicago and in the Advisory Committee for We Will Chicago. She holds a BA in Art History from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, a MA in Arts Administration & Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently working towards a MS in Accounting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Originally from the Zapotec community of Juchitan, Oaxaca she is now based in Chicago, land of the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi Nations.