Mexico’s Perfect Preservation Job
Editor’s note: SOHO congratulates Maria Curry, Our Heritage’s correspondent in Baja Mexico, on her new position with the state Secretary of Culture’s office. As our regular readers know, Maria is perpetually busy working on preservation on the border from multiple angles: as the state representative to ICOMOS Mexicano; an educator, speaker, and writer; an adviser to historic property owners and developers; and now this. I was hired as coordinator of the State Historic Archive in Baja California in November 2021. However, because there is an enormous need to solve multiple preservation issues that have stagnated for decades, Secretary of Culture Alma Delia Ábrego Ceballos decided to create a special position based on my expertise as a border preservation specialist. I will soon become director of the new Dirección de Seguimiento al Patrimonio Cultural Tangible (Department for Monitoring Tangible Cultural Heritage) to address identification, evaluation, preservation, and policies for tangible cultural resources. I will have employees and a budget to perform my duties. As someone told me, this is the perfect job for me, since it will allow me to use my preservation experience at its fullest, as a professional, academic, and grassroots organizer on behalf of Baja California’s heritage.
Since November, I have been working on several projects, including the reactivation of the Camino Real project of restoring missions and the heritage transportation corridor with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), advising local governments on mitigation measures for projects threatening cultural resources, providing support to historians on the elaboration of designation reports, identification of cultural resources, and gathering information from community leaders on preservation concerns for preservation planning. I am also involved with the designation of the Ensenada house of ex-president Abelardo L. Rodríguez, designed by the American architect Frank W. Stevenson.
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