Juliana Castro Varón


I’m the Senior Design Editor of A.I. Initiatives at the New York Times, and the founder of the open source library and publishing studio Cita Press. I’ve received fellowships from Fulbright, Harvard and the Mellon Foundation. 

Things I like: Good jokes, Times New Roman, memes, the literary line between poor memory and fiction, taking baths, rocks shaped as rocks, rocks shaped as UFOs, when my cat looks like a loaf of bread, crying at the movies, watching sunset. 

Other stuff: I’ve taught at the college level and given talks about art, design, AI, ghosts, and more (you can watch some of them online). I wrote a book about art, beauty, my grandma and Patti Smith. It’s called Papel sensible, and it was published in Spanish by Planeta (you can find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and in some Spanish-speaking bookstores around the world). I’m writing another one but it’s a secret. 

Online: Insta, Ex Twit, Threads, Arena, Email.
Offline: I’m around!
CITA PRESS (2018 - present) 

citapress.org
    Cita is an award-winning open-access feminist digital library and publisher that promotes and distributes the writings of women authors whose works are open-licensed or in the public domain. Initially an all-volunteer passion project, Cita has now received nearly a million dollars in funding from the Mellon Foundation, and is currently sponsored by the wonderful Educopia Institute. I am the founder and design director, and I also lead cita.studio, our client-facing design service.