[1] Acquaro 's work covers human and civil rights, racial and gender justice.
Her work has garnered international film festival awards and been featured on HBO, Cinemax, CNN, CBS, NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show", "The Voice of America," BBC/PRI's "The World"; shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The California African American Museum, Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., The Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, Advocate Gochis Gallery in Los Ángeles and the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film for her work documenting race in America through the eyes of African-Americans over the age of 100 in I'll Rise.
Acquaro's practice has expanded to include visual art as collective action, public space art and socially engaged exhibitions on racism, bias and transgender rights.
Acquaro began her career as an intern for photographer Mary Ellen Mark and assistant to Eddie Adams.