My name is Christopher Carlos Montejo. I am a first-generation Cuban-American educator, curator, and artist from Miami, Florida, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

My undergraduate studies integrated computational research in cognitive science with art, focusing on learning, play, creativity, and perception in early childhood. I synthesize psychology with my work in the humanities to understand our relationship to culture holistically.

My pedagogy is grounded in learning and reasoning through play, as it offers agency in the generative meaning-making of history and culture. Art serves as a mirror and a window for developing self-identity and empathy, disrupting hierarchies and conventions to cultivate social consciousness. Engaging with art together unearths the pluralism of experience and fosters sensitive, critical, and creative thinking. I teach for the MFA Boston, the ICA Boston, and an after-school program.

My curatorial and community organizing practice aims to platform historically silenced voices. I am the founder of "Tertulia," a collective of Greater Boston creatives of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora. For Tertulia, I have independently organized performances, workshops, and gatherings. I seek to expand Tertulia by curating gallery exhibitions and a zine.

My artistic work is interdisciplinary and rooted in my Cuban heritage. My dance studies are in Cuban traditional and modern choreography. My music combines Cuban percussion and tradition with American jazz. My visual art transforms found objects into social and political installations. My poetry blends Cuban rumbero and American beatnik forms. In total, my artistic work is centered on ancestral memory, creating identity in the diaspora, and transforming folkloric tradition in a contemporary context.