sentences:  Partnering with the Ford Foundation in 2016, Fernández helped found and create the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium.The U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium brought together artists, museum directors, curators, educators, academics, and funders for a dialogue on how to more broadly represent Latino art across the full spectrum of creative disciplines.One direct result of the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium's effectiveness was the Whitney Museum of American Art hiring Marcela Guerrero to be the museum's first curator specializing in Latinx.