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DOCUMENTARY

autopista (2022) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer Logline: In a film that’s told from a past tense perspective and at a point in time when most climate goals have been met, families in the San Joaquin Valley, a place with one of the world’s worst air pollution caused by transportation, share their relationship with cars and thoughts about climate change. Language: Spanish with English subtitles

$40 Billion (2022) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Animator/Cinematographer Logline: As the California wine industry adapts to climate change, farmworkers risk their lives to keep up with production. Language: Spanish with English subtitles

un barco para mi mamá (2022) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Animator/Cinematographer Logline: A filmmaker listens as her mother recounts her border crossing stories. Language: Spanish with English subtitles Festivals/Awards: Santa Barbara International Film Festival, San Francisco Documentary Festival (played at the Roxie Theater for 2 nights), Female Eye Film Festival, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, Webby Honoree

The Voice of Lupe (2021) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer Logline: With the walls as their canvas, Chicano muralists have been community storytellers for well over 60 years, and now, a ceramic mural continues that tradition to address racism and violence against women. Language: Spanish with English subtitles Festival/Awards: Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, UC Davis Placemaking Minigrant, UC Davis Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship Grant

Horsepower (2021) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer Logline: An experimental documentary that explores the physical work of domestic labor. Language: English with Spanish subtitles Festival: Nahui Ollin Film Festival (Durango, MX)

Manolito (2020) Role: Director/Animator/Editor Logline: A boy gets a haircut from his big brother. Language: Spanish with English subtitles Festival: UC Davis Film Festival

EDITOR/ARCHIVAL RESEARCHER/PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

2021-Present Flyaway Productions, Editor

2021 Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ), Production Assistant

2021 Ryse Center: building youth power, Production Assistant

2020-2021 Untitled Dwarfism Project and Instrumental: The Elayne Jones Story (Dir. Julie Wyman), Archival Researcher, Assistant Editor, and Production Assistant

PANELS

2022 Fierce Lab Live | Dallas, TX

2022 Bravemaker Film Festival | Women in Film

2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival | How to Make a Great Short

2021 UC Davis McNair Scholars | Multidisciplinary Research

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Arts Intensive Course Development Assistant, Summer 2022

Rose Salseda, Assistant Professor of African American and U.S. Latinx Art, Stanford University

Video Essay Course Development Assistant, Autumn 2021

Shane Denson, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, Stanford University

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Atomic No. 17: Downplaying the Insidious Effects of Chlorine-Bleach

Undergraduate Research Conference, University of California, Davis

May 2020 (Oral presentation), Sponsor: Jesse Drew, Ph.D.

Publication: eScholarship, 2020

Continued Associations of Race and Cleanliness in American Media

Undergraduate Research Conference, University of California, Los Angeles

July 2020 (Oral presentation), Sponsor: Jesse Drew, Ph.D.

AWARDS + HONORS

2023 UFVA Carole Fielding Film Production Grant

2023 Mexican-American Cultural Education Foundation Scholar

2022 NALIP Latino Lense Incubator

2021 Leon H. Mayhew Memorial Award

2021 Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) Scholar

2021 Chicana Latina Foundation Scholar

2020 Bernard Osher Scholarship

2020 UC Davis Lang Prize for Undergraduate Research, 3rd Place

2019-2020 UC Davis McNair Program Scholar

2019 Kovacs Art Scholarship Recipient

2019 President’s Latino Advisory Committee Scholarship

EDUCATION

Stanford University, MFA in Documentary Film 2023

University of California, Davis, B.A. in Cinema & Digital Media, minor in Theater and Dance, UC Davis (summa cum laude), GPA: 4.0

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, Brown Girls Doc Mafia

Member, International Documentary Association (IDA)

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Premiere, Davinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro X, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), Ableton Live

Cameras: Panasonic GH5, Sony FS5, Canon C-300

LANGUAGES

English / Spanish: Fluent

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Chicana Latina Foundation 2021 - 2023

DEI Graduate Student Representative, Stanford University 2021- 2023

Yolo Food Bank, Food Distribution 2019 - 2021