Janet Alvarado

Janet Mary Alvarado of San Francisco attended St. Paul High School in Noe Valley. She earned her degree in Industrial Design at SFSU.  After her father, Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado passed away in 1976, she came across a trove of 3,000 negatives that she curates. In 1997, a group of artists, scholars and community activists formed The Alvarado Project, a non-profit with Janet serving as the group’s executive director. After curating the initial showing of a selection of those photographs entitled “Through My Father’s Eyes” at the San Francisco Public Library in the fall of 1998, Janet went on to curate the exhibit when the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) toured the exhibit and programs nationally from November of 2002 until the fall of 2006.

Most recently, Ms. Alvarado is working on completing a book project based on the archive and exhibit with Stanford University slated for 2023. After being widowed, orphaned and diagnosed in 2020 with stage 4, metastatic ovarian cancer she embarks on a new chapter furthering her personal vision to create healing endeavors that expand her dreams of honoring legacy. In Winter of 2024 she co-founded Women Healing Women (R) at the Presidio Tunnel Tops in San Francisco, California, with Dr. Dorete Weyer-Lucci.