Hi! I’m Juliana Castro Varón, a designer, writer, technologist, and the founder of Cita Press. With a decade of experience working for museums, universities, non-profits, and agencies, I strive to lead projects that spark curiosity, raise questions, and charm audiences. I’m currently a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where I research the impact AI has on creativity and visual culture. I’m building a timeline of misleading photo manipulation, from darkroom to AI.
I’m a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Public Knowledge Grant from the Mellon Foundation. I speak three languages and have lived in 10 cities in four countries. My interests range from the literary line between fact and fiction, to open source libraries and 17-to-19th century literature, to weird AI memes. I’m an affiliate at metaLAB.
I’ve written for Kickstarter’s The Creative Independent, the Miami Herald and Are.na, among other places. My book, Papel sensible, came out in 2022. I came out in 2009.
SELECTED PRESS
︎︎︎ Image Manipulation, Pol Comm Tech Lab (Podcast)
︎︎︎ Imagenes narradas, que reflexionan sobre la vida, El Tiempo
︎︎︎ Un libro sensible que narra historias de amor, El Colombiano
︎︎︎ Lanzamiento literario, Canal Capital (TV)
︎︎︎ Juliana Castro a propósito de su primer libro, Infobae
︎︎︎ Feminist, Open-Access, Decentralized: Cita Press, Eye on Design
︎︎︎ Does the Sale of .ORG Exploit or Elevate the Internet?, Adobe XD
︎︎︎ Latinx Design, Directory, It's Nice That
︎︎︎ On Failure: CBC Spark (Podcast)
︎︎︎ Cita Press, AIGA Design Diary
︎︎︎ Site of the day: Cita Press, Typewolf
︎︎︎ Imagenes narradas, que reflexionan sobre la vida, El Tiempo
︎︎︎ Un libro sensible que narra historias de amor, El Colombiano
︎︎︎ Lanzamiento literario, Canal Capital (TV)
︎︎︎ Juliana Castro a propósito de su primer libro, Infobae
︎︎︎ Feminist, Open-Access, Decentralized: Cita Press, Eye on Design
︎︎︎ Does the Sale of .ORG Exploit or Elevate the Internet?, Adobe XD
︎︎︎ Latinx Design, Directory, It's Nice That
︎︎︎ On Failure: CBC Spark (Podcast)
︎︎︎ Cita Press, AIGA Design Diary
︎︎︎ Site of the day: Cita Press, Typewolf
Email: juliana [at] citapress [dot] org
Castro Varon are both last names. Sometimes I go by Juliana Castro. Sometimes I go by ‘Juli’ pronounced WHO-li.
︎ Spanish Naming Customs (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs)
Jayus (Indonesian) A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh.
︎ Feelings English doesn’t have (are.na/juliana-castro/feelings-english-doesn-t-have)
ORDER MY BOOK:
︎︎︎ USA (Free Shipping)
︎︎︎ In Mexico
︎︎︎ In Spain
︎︎︎ Librería Nacional
︎︎︎ Librería Lerner
︎︎︎ Google Books
︎︎︎ Barnes & Noble
︎︎︎ Amazon/Kindle





