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Marielba Alvarez is Public Affairs Associate, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Earlier this year, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery installed the portrait of Sylvia Rivera in the “Struggle for Justice” exhibition. Rivera is the first transgender person in the museum’s collection.
