Resume

Education

MA, MEDIA ARTS. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. May 1998.
BA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE. State University of New York at Purchase. Purchase, NY. May 1990.
ITALIAN CULTURE AND LANGUAGE. State University of New York at Buffalo in Siena, Italy. Spring 1989.

Education/ Teaching Experience (Selected)

MEDIA MENTOR. Adobe Youth Voices. Seattle, WA. March 2008-Present.
MEDIA MENTOR. Reel Grrls. Seattle, WA. April 2008-Present.
​ART TEACHER. University Prep. Seattle, WA. October 2011-January 2012 (long-term sub).
ART TEACHER. The Athenian School. Danville, CA. August 2004-June 2007, Fall 2009.
ART INSTRUCTOR: GRAPHIC DESIGN. Palo Alto Art Center. Palo Alto, CA. August 2006.​
PROGRAM GUIDE. Future Leaders Institute. Berkeley, CA. October 2005-May 2006.
EDUCATION DIRECTOR. Richmond Art Center. Richmond, CA. February 2002-June 2004.
CURRICULUM CONSULTANT. GirlSource. San Francisco, CA. Oct. 2001-March 2002.
CURRICULUM WRITER. Topics Education Group. Charlotte, NC. Spring 2001, Winter 2002.
TEACHER TRAINER. Southern Exposure: Race Representation and Youth. San Francisco, CA. Sept. 2001.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. Southern Exposure: Race Representation and Youth at Thurgood Marshall High School. San Francisco, CA. Sept.2000-May 2001.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. Mexican Museum: Reframing Ourselves photography and web design course at Horace Mann Middle School. San Francisco, CA. Winter/Spring 2001.
INSTRUCTOR. Just Think: Video Production and Media Literacy with Girls 2000 (video shown at Sundance). San Francisco CA. Fall 2000.
INSTRUCTOR, CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEMBER AND THINK TANK MEMBER. Tilt: Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools. San Francisco, CA. Fall 1999-Spring 2002.
INTERIM EDUCATION DIRECTOR. Tilt: Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools. San Francisco, CA. June-Sept. 2000.
INSTRUCTOR. Center for Digital Storytelling. Berkeley, CA. Winter-Spring 2000.
INSTRUCTOR. Jewish Museum San Francisco: Digital Storytelling. San Francisco, CA. Summer, Fall 1999.
VISITING LECTURER. Pacific Film Archives: How to Read a Film. Berkeley, CA. Summer, 1999.
CO-TEACHER. Berkeley High School Video Production. Berkeley, CA. Summer, 1999.
CO-TEACHER. -ISMS (N.) Crossing Boundaries: Diversity & Representation [Course in video making & critical studies for college and graduate students]. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. April 1997-June 1998.
TEACHING ASSISTANT. Introduction to Video Production. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. Fall 1997.
TEACHING ASSISTANT. Sexuality Studies. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. Fall 1996.
INSTRUCTOR. Introductory Videomaking. Pittsburgh Filmmakers/ Manchester Craftsman’s Guild. Pittsburgh, PA. 1994.
INTERN. Homemade T.V. Project. The New Museum Of Contemporary Art. New York, NY. Fall, 1990.

Administrative Experience

INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Richmond Art Center. October-December 2003.
BAY AREA SCHOLARSHIP & HOMESTAY COORDINATOR. Rail-Volution. Oakland, CA. April-Dec. 2001.
PRODUCTION MANAGER. Studio Miramar. San Francisco, CA. Mar. 2000-Jan. 2001.
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR. KQED Education Network Media Education Conference. San Francisco, CA. Nov. 1999-Feb. 2000.
OPERATIONS AND OFFICE MANAGER. Berkeley Community Media. Berkeley, CA. Sept. 1998-Aug. 1999.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER. Alliance For Community Media, Northeast Region/ CCTV. Burlington, VT. Oct. 1995-May 1996.
SHOP MANAGER. The International Center of Photography. New York, NY. Dec. 1991 to Sept. 1992.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY. April 1991 to Nov. 1991.

Curatorial Experience

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. Lesbian Looks Film and Video Festival. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. 1997-98.
FILM SERIES COORDINATOR. University of Arizona. Media Arts Grad. Association. Tucson, AZ. Spring 1998.
SCREENING CURATOR. On TV. Media Arts Graduate Colloquium. Tucson, AZ. Fall 1997.
FILM SERIES COORDINATOR. The University of Vermont. The Student Political Awareness and Responsibility Coalition (SPARC). Burlington, VT. Fall 1995.

Production/ Technical Experience

PHOTOGRAPHER. Peddling Art, a project of Kristen Ramirez and Laura Wright. Seattle, WA. September 2007.
VIDEO PRODUCER. Laptop care and Feeding (video for faculty on how to use their Laptops), Athenian School. 2005.
FILM AND VIDEO PROJECTIONIST. The Andy Warhol Museum. Pittsburgh, PA. May 1994 to July 1995.
OPERATIONS ASSISTANT. Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Pittsburgh, PA. Sept. 1993 to Nov. 1994.
ASSISTANT ON-LINE VIDEO EDITOR. Deep Dish Television. Fiona Boneham, Editor. New York, NY. Fall 1992.
FREELANCE VIDEO MAKER. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY. June to Nov. 1991.

Exhibitions/ Awards/ Published Work

Art

Lost in Slumber. 3 minute experimental video. Completed 2007.
Since… Dia de los Muertos installation with Sara Biel at Paxton Gate, San Francisco, CA. Summer 2003.
Overtime. Collages in group show at The Richmond Art Center. Richmond, CA. Summer 2003.
The Live Art LABoratory. Contributed words and images to installation by Lise Swenson at The Lab. San Francisco, CA. September 2002.
Suitcase Stories. Participant in exhibit of suitcases inspired by the work of Flo Oy Wong presented at Richmond Health Center and Richmond Art Center. Richmond, CA. Summer 2002 and 2003.
Personal Dress Project. Exhibit and performance of clothing project with Nan Eastep. San Francisco, CA. January 2002.
Application. 3 minute experimental video. Completed 2000.
Screenings: "Witness." Southern Exposure. San Francisco, CA. Fall 2001.
TILT Benefit Artist’s Television Access. San Francisco, CA. Summer 2000.
If You Move Fast Time Will Slow Down: Artxplosion (2 hour live show). 1999.
An Idea of Mother. 7 minute experimental video. Completed 1996.
Screenings: “Video Tensions: Video Local.” Tucson, AZ. July 1997.
Artist’s Television Access. San Francisco, CA. June 1997.
24th Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, OH. May, 1997.
Ceres Gallery. Presented with words of Poet Maria McLeod New York, NY. May 1996.
Living on the Moon: Rape and the Aftermath. 60 minute documentary. Completed 1996.
Screenings: University of Vermont Women’s Film Festival (Burlington, VT). March 1996.
Video work for Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway. Holly Solomon Gallery (New York, NY). 1995.
Puppet maker and video work for X2. Art Jones, Filmmaker. New York, NY. 1993.
Reel Taste. Film installation at Metropol (Pittsburgh, PA). Fall 1993.
Influences. 5 minute experimental video based on a Borges story. Completed 1990.
Screenings: Downtown Community Television. New York, NY. August 1990.

Writing

"Echoing Voices: Crossing Boundaries through Personal Videos." Afterimage: Media Art as/in Therapy: a Special Issue. Vol. 29 No. 3. November/December 2001.
“Shopping for the ‘Kid in Us.’” Media Arts Graduate Colloquium (Tucson, AZ). Fall 1997, Western States Regional Conference Fall 1999.
“-ISM (N.) Alternative Pedagogy and Media Activism.” Panel presentation. Articulating Conflicts in Cultural Studies: Agency, Resistance, and Social Change (Tucson, AZ). Spring 1998.