Erina Alejo

San Francisco born and raised Erina C Alejo (b. 1991) is an artist, researcher and educator who works across decades and geographies to construct archives on labor, displacement, family and communal history. They are a third-generation San Francisco renter with family, documented through A Hxstory of Renting (2015–ongoing). Alejo administers grants for the Office of the Vice President for the Arts at Stanford University. They also participate in Stanford’s Creative Cities, a working group reimagining the role of art in the urban sphere. Alejo’s current SFMOMA commission, My Ancestors Followed Me Here, is an outgrowth of their previous work on gentrification and community resilience.