Cristina Biaggi papers, 1930-2022

Cristina Biaggi (1937-) was born in Switzerland and was raised in New York. She studied art and art history, sculpture, archeology, literature, and more at Vassar College, Harvard University, the University of Mexico City, and the University of Utah, finally earning her PhD in the aesthetics of art and prehistory at New York University. She has had a long career in activism and the arts, publishing papers, giving speeches, and displaying her art around the world. Much of her life's work is centered around the Goddess; she has written numerous books and created countless works of art on the subject. Later in life, she began an impressive hiking career, climbing peaks such as Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Shasta. She now resides in New York, continuing to write, create, lecture, exhibit her art, and teach taekwondo as a fifth-degree black belt.