Experience
Mentor, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
Feb 2023 - May 2023
- As part of Program X: Cultural Activism and Media, mentored a group of three adult immigrants as they made a short documentary about housing in Queens.
- Collaborated on pre-production, production, and post-production to produce Sobreviviendo en Queens (Surviving in Queens).
Member, The Illuminator, New York City
Apr 2014 - Apr 2023
- As a collective member, supported the realization of large-scale public projections meant to shine a light on urgent social and political issues of our time
- Collaborated on administration, creative content production, documentation via photography and video, projector & generator operation, mapping projections, driving the van and updating social media
- Presented the collective's work and and teach our tactical media processes at various conferences and workshops
Co-Director of Youth Documentary Workshop, Educational Video Center, Manhattan
Sept 2019 - Sept 2021
- Facilitated a rigorous afterschool documentary video production program as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy and career skills of transfer & international high school students
- Guided students from pre-production through final edits of their self-selected social issue documentaries
- Supported creation and presentation of portfolios which demonstrate student learning and growth
Program Manager, Beam Center, New York City
May 2019 - Aug 2019
- Trained DOE 6th-9th grade teachers and CUNY interns in the Invention By Nature curriculum, which was focused on designing and prototyping with electronics and engineering
- Supported teachers as they led students through technical skill-building workshops, guided design/prototyping sessions, and the development of Synthesis Projects for a final project showcase
- Provided on-site logistical, technical, and content support to teachers and students at the High School for Art & Design
Adjunct Professor, New York University, Manhattan
Jan 2018 - May 2019
- Facilitated "Teaching Art in a Digital Age: Media Literacy & Visual Culture" course, in which Art Education graduate students think critically about our technology-saturated society and learn how to pass critical literacy and media art skills on to their K-12th grade art students.
Learning Design Manager, Mouse, New York City
Oct 2010 - May 2019
- As part of the Educator Engagement and Membership teams, led professional development workshops and provided ongoing support for educators using the Mouse Create curriculum with middle and high school-aged students
- As part of the Learning Design team, designed, developed, and piloted new curriculum in a variety of STEM, computer science and soft skills including: HTML, CSS, Javascript, networking, troubleshooting, hardware, electronics, circuitry, serious games, green technology, graphic & 3D design, sewable tech, digital portfolios, leadership, and team-building
- Shot and edited short videos to support the Mouse Create curriculum and programs
Adjunct Professor, Hunter College (CUNY), Manhattan
Aug 2015 - May 2016
- Facilitated "Film in a Digital Age" lab courses, in which undergraduate students learned audio and video production and post-production in Premiere Pro CC
Teaching Artist (documentary video production), various, NYC
Sept 2010 - Aug 2014
- Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, Passages Academy Bronx Hope, Bronx
- Satellite Academy High School, Manhattan
- Dance Theatre Etcetera, Rockaway Park High School, Queens
- Educational Video Center, Manhattan
Exhibitions and Presentations
NAMLE: Media Literacy + Social Justice Conference
July 2021
Youth Film Screening and Community Dialogue by EVC
2nd Annual Integrated Channels Exhibition, online
August 20-Dec 2020
All of a Sudden, interactive website, included in online show of
multimedia, experimental and interactive works
Encuentro: The World Inside Out, Mexico City
June 9-15, 2019
- Solo: Disordered
- The Illuminator: Border Blaster
- Work Group: Work/Chop/Group: Risus et Panis, Urbis et Circenses
Disordered: Conversations about mental health and society
2017-ongoing
- Welling Court Mural Project, May 2018-May 2019
- Participatory installations, signs, stickers, mural, NYC, September 2017-present
- How We Create and How We Cope at Laguardia Performing Arts Center, April 15, 2018
- Hunter College MFA Thesis Show, December 16, 2017
ORD Camp, Google, Chicago
January 25-26, 2019
Led session on utilizing art for activism and movement building at this
invite-only unconference
El cine documental de Patricio Guzmán, Université d'Artois, Arras, France
March 3, 2017
Presented paper "The Political Power of the Insider Collective Voice:
Through the Revolutions of The Battle of Chile and Tongues Untied"
Wall, Street., Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
February 22 - March 3, 2017
Solo show for The Illuminator
Against Competition / Towards Mutual Aid, Flux Factory / ABC No Rio, Long Island City, NY
February 1-14, 2017
Superorganism (00:11:30 interactive dual channel installation)
iArt Show, Hunter College, CUNY, New York City, NY
December 16, 2016
Unsolicited (interactive installation), collaboration with
Noa Ginzburg
Encuentro eXcentrico, Santiago, Chile
July 17-23, 2016
- The Illuminator Performance: Student Debt Rebellion
- Round Table: Street Artists
International Critical Studies Research Group Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, England
June 13-14, 2016
Presented paper "The Power of Tactical Media Collectives"
AgitProp!, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
April 7-August 7, 2016
Where in Brooklyn do Vultures Roost? (video installation by The
Illuminator)
Allied Media Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
June 18-21, 2015
Workshop, presentation and projection intervention as The Illuminator
Open Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
April 17-19, 2015
Presentation and projection intervention as The Illuminator
Screenings
YES I RODE HERE (00:10:00, HD, documentary film, 2015)
- The Queens Drive-In, Queens, NY, September 5, 2020
- International Short Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany, November 14-20, 2016
- Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival, Portland, OR, March 3-6, 2016
- Bicycle Film Festival, New York City, NY, June 24-28, 2015
negative space > positive space (00:06:00, SD, documentary film, 2009)
Contact Dance International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, June 13, 2013
My Commuted Commute (00:05:00, SD, documentary film, 2010)
Bicycle Film Festival, New York City, NY, June 22-26, 2011
Education
Cooperative Leadership Intensive, 2020
Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City
Master of Fine Arts, Integrated Media Arts, 2017
Hunter College of the City University of New York
Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Film and Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, 2003
Hunter College of the City University of New York