Amalia I. Córdova Hidalgo is a Supervisory Museum Curator at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where she co-directs the Mother Tongue Film Festival. She was a Latin American program specialist for the Film + Video Center of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, served as Assistant Director of New York University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and taught at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.