Dejanira Álvarez Cárdenas is the General Director of the New York City International Book Fair (FILNYC) and the Deputy Director of Academic and Student Services at the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute. In both roles, she promotes academic programmes, student services, institutional partnerships and cultural projects. As the director of FILNYC, she leads its strategic and institutional development, as well as the fair's programming, communications and overall operations. She also coordinates the FILNYC anthology and organises the Las Yubartas Hispano-American Fiction Prize.