Yolanda Cesta Cursach Montilla (she/ella) is an advocate and resource for artists developing and presenting multidisciplinary work in a range of institutions and entrepreneurial environments, US and international. She is Artistic Director of High Concept Labs, a residency and presenting organization based at Mana Contemporary on Chicago’s south west side. Her independent curation focus is interdisciplinary artists in Ibero-Latin America, France, Sub-Sahara Africa, Japan, and Australasia; Indigeneity; and Disability Culture and Aesthetics. She is a Practitioner with Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation and formally trained in Political Science. Networks include: Member, Creative & Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA); Curator of Destinos Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA); Curator of Elevate Chicago Dance, produced by Chicago Dancemakers Forum; Artistic Associate with the FACE Foundation, for the French US Exchange in Dance (FUSED) and Contemporary Theater; Facilitator of Moving Forward Dialogues, produced by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Advisory Committee, Arts Midwest, for GIG. She is former Curator of Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art (1997-2018). She is a recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Lifetime Award for Humanitarian Work by Rotary International, a native of Rome, Italy and grew up in Madrid, Spain.