Mario de la Cruz

Mario de la Cruz is a founding editor of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine and serves as its creative director. He is also an associate director of the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. His work focuses on visual, oral and performance-based narratives that give voice to marginalized people, with attention to health inequity. He teaches at Columbia, CUNY School of Medicine and Sarah Lawrence College, covering illness and disability narratives, social justice in healthcare, and graphic medicine. Earlier he developed and oversaw HIV/AIDS and sexual health programs for healthcare institutions and nonprofits serving under-resourced youth.