Strategic Leadership Team
Hazel Colón is Director of Programs for Titín Foundation, a local Foundation focused on initiatives that improve the quality of life for individuals and communities through projects that support education, promote access to the arts and strengthen the nonprofit sector.
Hazel’s professional acumen has earned her recognition as a seasoned cultural strategist with extensive hands-on experience in the global creative industries ecosystem. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and a Master of Arts in Cultural Agency and Arts Administration from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, with an internship in the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University. She went on to take leadership roles as Executive Director of Inversión Cultural and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture’s Exhibitions as well as the Editorials Programs. Hazel has advanced her professional career as a senior consultant of multiple private and public organizations on cultural strategy and development of her client portfolio which includes Musical Arts Corporation, Banco Popular Foundation, the Puerto Rico Musical Arts and Stagecraft Corporation and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation.
Immersed in the local and global creative ecosystem, Hazel remains loyal to her mission to promote cultural and creative industries inclusion in the local economies and their access to new markets. She co-founded MECA International Art Fair, where she continues to provide leadership in the design and execution of institutional and cultural partnership programming, achieving high-impact strategic alliances with institutional and private organizations that include Banco Popular of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Tourism Company, PR Destination Marketing Organization (DMO), Fundación Ángel Ramos, Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico, Malta India and the Puerto Rico Science and Technology and Research Trust.