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Marta Moreno Vega is a 78-year-old Puerto Rican-American activist, author, and scholar. She is the founder and president of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and development of the African Diaspora. Vega was born in New York City in 1942 and raised in Puerto Rico. She attended the University of Puerto Rico, where she earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in social work. She then moved to New York City, where she worked as a social worker and community organizer. In 1976, Vega founded CCCADI, which has since become a major cultural institution in New York City. Through CCCADI, Vega has worked to promote the African Diaspora and its culture, as well as to foster understanding and collaboration between African-American and Latino communities. Vega has also written several books, including The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria (1990) and When Spirit Calls: The Healing Journey of a Traditional Shaman (1995). She has also been a professor at the City University of New York and a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Vega has received numerous awards for her work, including the National Hispanic Heritage Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.

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2011

In 2011 Vega was one of five New Yorkers featured in the HBO documentary by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders called The Latino List. In 2012, Vega gave a talk at the TEDxHarlem detailing Afro-Latino spirituality in Puerto Rican and other Caribbean cultures. In April 2013, Dr. Vega launched a campaign to raise funds to create Let the Spirit Move You: The Documentary. The campaign was completely funded by in total a month later. It focused on Santeria, the African diaspora, and the importance of community. Dr. Moreno-Vega has been referenced in Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez's Guardians of Infinity #3. The comic features Groot as having a Puerto Rican background. In it, Dr. Moreno-Vega's personage is caricatured by a character named Abuela Estela. When asked about this similarity, Miranda-Rodriguez stated “I’ve known Marta since I was about 19. She has always supported me as a young professional… That’s why I made her the abuela. The [idea] literally came from her mouth.” In 2018, Vega was featured in the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985.

2000

In 2000, Vega served as co-director of the Global Afro-Latino and Caribbean Initiative(GALCI) at Hunter College. The program promoted to make known the struggles of the Afro-Latino communities, which are less visible, and insisting that the human, civil, and cultural rights of these communities be respected and acknowledged. The program was terminated years later. That same year, she wrote her first book, The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria. The book dives into the Santeria religion, detailing its origin, themes, and practices while connecting them to Vega's experiences both from her childhood, where she has seen her grandmother practice the religion and as an adult practicing it herself. In 2004, a few years later, Vega published a personal memoir based on the documentary, When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio. It covers the range of issues such as the influence of African culture in South America, Afro-Caribbean-American identity in the Latin community, and the religious aspects of the Santeria religion. She discusses the experience of living in Spanish Harlem, delving into her life as a woman of color. Her book, When the Spirits Dance Mambo, was reprinted and released in April 2018.

1996

From 1996 to 2000, she was an assistant professor at Baruch College of City University of New York in the Black and Hispanic Studies department. She began this position after earning her doctorate in African Studies from Temple University the year prior.

1995

She received her B.A. and M.A. in Education from New York University and in 1995 received a PhD in African Studies from Temple University.

1976

In 1976, she founded and became the Director of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in New York City. The CCCADI is an international nonprofit dedicated to maintaining the history and traditions of the African diaspora in the Americas and promoting social activism, among other things. Vega was inspired to create the CCCADI after realizing that were was limited information about the African and Native cultures from the Caribbean and Latin American countries. In January 2018, Vega became an advisor to the Board of Directors, with Margarita Rosa, Esq. present as the role of interim director of CCCADI.

1975

She was one of the founders of the Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), which was created in 1975. AHA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the work of Hispanic artists.

1971

In the spring of 1971, Vega was voted in as the second Director of El Museo del Barrio. As Director, she continued the founder's, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, work in educating the community about the need to support a museum depicting their history. In June 1974, she curated an exhibition documenting slavery and Afro-Puerto Rican heritage called Aspectos de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico. She served as director until March 1975.

1952

Marta Moreno Vega (born January 3, 1952) is the founder of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). She led El Museo del Barrio, is one of the founders of the Association of Hispanic Arts, and founded the Network of Centers of Color and the Roundtable of Institutions of Colors. Vega is also a visual artist and an Afro-Latina activist.