Juana Medina is an award-winning visual storyteller. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Juana discovered the powers within crayons and pens… and further on, the power of letting images tell stories.
She studied at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she received a Challenge America Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), through RISD. Juana was the first winner of the prestigious Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, awarded yearly by the National Cartoonists Society to a top college cartoonist in North America. She has illustrated books for Random House, Alfaguara Editores, Texas University Press and Editorial Norma. Her work has appeared from the walls of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) to jumbotron screens in Times Square, in New York City.
Juana currently lives between Washington, DC and Providence, RI where she is a faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is also working in multiple collaborations and is always eager to explore different venues to tell stories.