Art Educator. Artist. Advocate.

Flavia Zuñiga-West is a west coast based art educator, advocate and artist on Tongva land ( Los Angeles). She graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting and earned a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the Museum Studies at New York University. She currently works in the Visual Arts Department at Harvard-Westlake Middle School. Flavia is an arts educator, curator, professional development facilitator and founder of the nationally renowned Adding Voices Conference and Symposiums.

She currently serves on the CAEA ED+I Commissioner for the California Art Education Association. Flavia is the recipient of the 2022 National Art Education Association’s Committee of Multiethnic Affairs In Service Teacher Award and the 2022 National Art Education Association’s Independent School Art Teacher of the Year Award.

Flavia specializes in centering Black & Brown narratives in art education & art organizations. She uses joy and liberatory practices to engage visual critical analysis of identity, social justice, and anti-racism.