Cuauhtémoc Camarena Ocampo

Cuauhtémoc Camarena Ocampo holds a degree in Social Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and has been a research professor at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) since 1981. He was Director of the Museo Regional de Oaxaca from 1989 to 1992. He received the fellowship from the International Program for Community Development, Kellogg Foundation in 1997, the residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2003, and the ICOM Mexico Award in 2014. Since 1985, he began to collaborate with indigenous people for the creation of community museums in Oaxaca, along with his wife, Teresa Morales. They promoted the exchange of experiences and mutual support among communities, which led to the founding of the Unión de Museos Comunitarios de Oaxaca, A.C. in 1991. Over the course of 34 years they have advised the creation of 24 community museums in the State of Oaxaca, besides promoting the creation of the Unión Nacional de Museos Comunitarios de México since 1994 and the Red de Museos Comunitarios de América since 2000. His main publications include Pasos para crear un museo comunitario (1994) and El museo comunitario: un espacio para el ejercicio del poder comunal (2009).