Timeline
Spring 2022 - Present Director, Co-Editor, Producer, Cinematographer, and Co-Sound Designer in Untitled Experimental Documentary on Liza Lay, Outsider Art, Border/Latina Artist
Summer 2023 Director, Co-Editor, Producer, and Co-Sound Designer in Las Cartas de Doña Evangelina
Summer 2015 – 2021 Director, Co-Editor, Producer, Co-Cinematographer, and Co-Sound Designer in GUMARO
Summer 2014 – 2019 Director, Editor, Producer, Co-Cinematographer, and Sound Designer in WYVERNWOOD: THE GARDEN CITY
Resume/CV
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Dual M.F.A. in Film/Video and Writing, with Concentrations in Integrated Media &
Text/Image
California Institute of the Arts Graduate Studies (CalArts)
B.A. Film and Television, with Concentrations in Production, Documentary,
Screenwriting, & Critical Studies
UCLA Undergraduate Studies (UCLA)
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM, Los Angeles, CA
Board Member and Curator in the Programming Committee - 1/23 – Present
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU), San Diego, CA
Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer in Art & Design - 1/21 – Present
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO (CSUSB), San Bernardino, CA
Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer in Art & Design - 09/18 – Present
THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES (THE ACADEMY), Los Angeles, CA
Researcher, Production Coordinator, Production Assistant, Quality Control assistant,
Translator, Indexer, Note-taker, and Transcoder of Interviews for Oral History
(Project-based) - 8/15 – 03/2020
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
Summer Discovery Middle and High School Lead Instructor and Editor for: The Film
Academy, Film/Video Production Courses, Introduction to Psychology Courses, and
Critical Studies Courses in Film History about ‘The Principles of Advertising’ and
‘Jewish History and Leadership in Hollywood’ (Summers) 06/16 – 10/22
SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART (SHG), Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Artist - 03/19 – 08/21
FREE-LANCE TEACHING-ARTIST for the Los Angeles Unified School District & the Los Angeles County Office of Education - 09/14 – 06/21
Directing Change Program and Film Contest Teaching-Artist at John R. Wooden High School
Teaching-Artist - 09/18 – 04/21
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS (CALARTS), Valencia, CA
Lead Instructor, Teaching-Artist, AmeriCorps Fellow, Artist-in-Residence in Los Angeles Unified School District, Art Administrator Assistant - 09/15 – 05/18 & 09/19-05/21
Exploring the Arts Teaching-Artist at the Santee Education Complex
Teaching-Artist - 09/18 – 06/20
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH (CSULB), Long Beach, CA
Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer in Art Education - 02/18 – 08/18
ARTWORXLA,Los Angeles, CA
Lead Instructor & Teaching Instructor - 08/17 – 03/18
DITIGAL REVOLUTION, Long Beach, CA
Production Coordinator, Cinematographer, and Production Assistant - 08/16 – 06/18
COLBURN SCHOOL (COLBURN), Los Angeles, CA
Summer Encounter Visual Arts Workshop Instructor - 08/15 – 08/15 & 08/16 – 08/16
UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CHIPARAKI Cultural Civic Computing Center and UCLA School of Theater, Film and various projects for The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP), a joint effort of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) and Samueli School of Engineering
Research Artist/Research Assistant - 01/07 – 01/09
UCLA School of Public Policy and Urban Planning LOTS Project, Los Angeles, CA
Urban Planning and New Media Research and Investigation - 06/08 – 08/08
UCLA’S Graduate Student Associations’ MELNITZ MOVIES
Assistant Programmer - 08/02 – 012/05
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS (CALARTS), Valencia, CA
Student Instructor - 09/11 – 07/14
Teaching Assistant (TA)- 09/11 – 05/14
Library Worker - 05/13 – 10/13
Student Council Senator, School of Film/Video - 09/12 – 06/13
Video Library Worker - 01/12 – 05/13
MATHNASIUM- MATH LEARNING CENTER, Los Angeles, CA
Math Tutor - 01/09 – 06/12
WORLD FUND, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Editor - 03/09 – 04/09
LOS ANGELES MEDIA COLLECTIVE (LA CO-MEDIA), Los Angeles, CA
Lead Organizer - 11/08 –11/11
LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER, Los Angeles, CA
Videographer, Documentarian/ Receptionist, Head Usher, House Manager, and Box Office Treasurer - 08/08 – 06/10
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, Los Angeles, CA
Math, Writing & English Language Arts Tutor - 01/08 – 06/08
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ENTREPRENEUR EXPERIENCE
INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY, Los Angeles, CA
Documentarian, Producer, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, DVD Maker - 05/15 – Present
INDEPENDENT SPECIAL EVENTS VIDEOGRAPHER, Los Angeles, CA
Documentarian, Producer, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, DVD Maker - 01/07 – 09/13
INDEPENDENT TRANSLATOR, Los Angeles, CA
Provide translation across Southern California, in educational settings, special events, local businesses and non-profit organizations - 07/08 – 10/13
MEDIA CONSULTANT, Los Angeles, CA
Provide media consulting across Southern California, in educational settings, special events, local businesses and non-profit organizations - 07/08 – 10/13
INDEPENDENT TUTOR FOR PUBLIC, PUBLIC-CHARTER & PUBLIC-MAGNET SCHOOLS, Los Angeles, CA Provide tutorial instruction across Los Angeles County, covering all K-12 curriculum, adult school and community college coursework - 07/08 – 10/13
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Imparted Weekly Book Discussions on books by: Michel Foucault, Yuval Noah Harari,
Alex Pentland, Steven Pinker, Ken Wilber, Priya Satia, Lewis Hyde, Antonio Damasio,
Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Shunryu Suzuki, Hannah
Arendt, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Douglas Hofstadter, Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall
Jamieson, Ian McGilchrist, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, Donna Michelle Anderson, Blake
Snyder, Jamie Nash, Robert Towne, James Bridle, Peter Block, Christine Vachon, V.I.
Pudovkin, Iain McGilchrist, Hannah Arendt, Peter Bosma, Spike Lee, & Isabel Wilkerson