Daniella Cura is a cultural manager, curator and feminist music researcher born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her parents are both journalists, who motivated her passion for the arts and cultural studies from an early age.

In December 2019 she published Esther Forero. La Caminadora, a book that through its approach to the life and music of this composer and other female artists, has fostered new spaces of conversation around the approach of feminist musicology, little explored in Latin America.

She has worked as the artistic curator of the Jazz Al Parque Festival, the largest jazz festival in South America, organized by the city of Bogotá. As part of this event, she founded the first all-female big band of Bogotá in 2022. She has also collaborated with several other Colombian cultural events, such as the International Carnival of the Arts of the La Cueva Foundation.

Daniella holds a degree in Liberal Arts in Social Sciences from the Universidad del Rosario. She also studied music with a focus on composition at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Arts Leadership and Cultural Management at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Her academic and professional interests focus on music, cultural heritage, ethnomusicology, gender studies, and the arts as a tool for development and social change.