Auttrianna Ward is an independent curator, editor, multilingual writer, cultural producer, and founder of Auttrianna Projects. Born and raised in San Francisco, Ward has spent the past decade centering the stories of the African diaspora through her academic and professional endeavors, which have taken her to Brazil, Puerto Rico, New York, Chicago, London, Baltimore, and across the continental United States. Ward is the founder of MARE's Artist Residency and Auttrianna Projects, a multidisciplinary art company that supports Latin American, African, and Asian artistic production through publications, grants, residencies, and special projects. She has written cultural commentaries as a contributing writer for Saint Heron, AFROPUNK, Sugarcane Magazine, and published a bilingual online journal in Portuguese and English for Afro-Brazilian art, Cores Brilhantes, from 2015 to 2018. Recent awards include the Critical Minded Grant for Critics of Color, Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellowship, MICA Intercultural Development Grant, MICA/MFA Graduate Merit Scholarship, and the MICA Graduate Research Development Grant.