Leila Hamidi is an artist, writer, and curator working at the intersection of the arts, design, and civic memory. She has led major initiatives with the Getty Museum, created a new campus, robotics laboratory, and master’s program for UCLA Architecture & Urban Design, and served as director of operations for the award-winning architecture firm Johnston Marklee. A published author, her curatorial work includes Love Letters in Light, a poetry-based public artwork in partnership with LA County Library, and How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?, a Mellon Foundation-funded editorial and program series with Arizona State University. In 2024, she premiered an opera on war, migration, and forgiveness at Rice University and Carnegie Hall. She also co-directed an arts initiative for LA County Department of Mental Health and served on the Mayor of L.A.’s Civic Memory Working Group, shaping public art and historical narratives. In 2025, she earned a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where she deepened her inquiry into the generative possibilities at the intersection of the arts and public policy, exploring cultural work as a site of systems change and depolarization.