Leila Hamidi is an artist, writer, arts organizer, and curator. She works collaboratively across disciplines in the arts, design, architecture, and technology to create projects that imagine a more generous future. She was the assistant project director on the first Getty Pacific Standard Time initiative; director of program development at UCLA A.UD where she launched their IDEAS campus, robotics lab, and experimental masters program in architecture; and director of operations at the award-winning architecture firm Johnston Marklee. Leila has consulted on fundraising and other strategic efforts for the MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit, edited a children’s book on the Civil Rights Movement with artist Olayami Dabls, published a book on conceptual artist Eugenia Butler's 1993 project The Kitchen Table, and participated in the City of L.A. Mayor’s Office Working Group on Civic Memory.

In 2021, she served as co-director of the Art Rise initiative part of WE RISE—an annual event of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, which commissioned over eighteen temporary public art installations around Downtown Los Angeles, produced in collaboration with twelve museums and over ninety artists. As part of WE RISE, she was the curator of Love Letters in Light, a poetry-based public artwork produced in partnership with LA County Library for which a short documentary was produced to chronicle the project. In 2022, Leila served as guest curator for “How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?” — an editorial and event series through Zócalo Public Square, funded by the Mellon Foundation. In 2024, she premiered a multidisciplinary work for the stage titled Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness, which premiered at the Brockman Hall for Opera at Rice University, with a second performance in fall of 2024 at Carnegie Hall.