(Panama, 1961) is an editor, curator, art critic, translator, educator, and journalist based in Panama City. Academic studies include a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in New York and doctoral studies in Hispanic Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. She founded (with Alberto Gualde) and directed the magazine Talingo(1993–2006), which won the Prince Claus Fund Award (the Netherlands) in 2002. She founded and directs the Sarigua publishing house and arpa, a non-profit that promotes culture and contemporary art. She has written essays on art, culture, and literature, as well as educational guides on contemporary art. Samos is the author of the book Divorce Panamanian Style. Jumps and Shifts in Art from Panama: 1990–2015 (TEOR/éTica, San José, 2016); editor of Radical Pedagogy: Art as Education (Sarigua, Panama, 2013) and (with Gerardo Mosquera) of ciudadMULTIPLEcity. Urban Art and Global Cities: An Experience in Context (Hivos, Amsterdam, 2004), among others (all bilingual editions). She has organized symposia, workshops, educational programs, and art exhibitions in Latin America and Spain. Recent curatorships include “Rebels: The In(di)visible Tradition” (with Humberto Vélez in 2018) and “An Invasion in 4 Tenses” (with Mónica Kupfer and Gladys Turner in 2019–2020), both at MAC Panama; “Shout it Out! The Bells Toll for You” at the Cultural Center of Spain-Casa del Soldado (2021–2022) and “Esviel Jeffers: Prototypes. The Utopia of the Departure” (with Vélez in 2022–2023) and “Katia Miranda: A Desert” (2023), both in Diptych Gallery; “Jenené. The Power of Water: Enea Lebrun and Andrea Lino” at MAC Panama (2023); and the performance festival Panamá Performa-PEPA (with Vélez and Juan Canela since 2023). She is advisor to the Cisneros-Fontanals Foundation and MAC Panama, among other institutions, and the main translator for the Latin American art magazine ArtNexus.