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Education
Master of Library & Information Science, Media Archival Studies | Expected 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. in Media Studies | 2016
University of California, BerkeleySelected Professional Experience
Artist Assistant and Researcher for Trinh T. Minh-ha, Moongift Films, Berkeley, CA - July 2019-March 2020
Production Archival Assistant for The Asian Americans, Flash Cuts, San Francisco, CA - April 2019-January 2020
Library Aide, Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA - February 2019-Present
Memories to Light Archives Intern, Center for Asian American Media, San Francisco, CA - September 2018-Present
Archives Intern, National Film Archives of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines - September 2017
Program Associate, Asian American Journalists Association, San Francisco, CA - January 2017-January 2019
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts
— DESMA 8: Media Histories, Winter 2021
— DESMA 10: Design Culture, Fall 2020
Selected Affiliations
Co-Chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists' Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee, 2020-Present
Curator and Co-Organizer, Light Field, 2019-Present
Light Field is an artist and collectively-run international exhibition of recent and historical moving image art on celluloid. Recipient of Southern Exposure's 2019 Alternative Exposure grant. More: http://www.lightfieldfilm.org/
Collective Member, Black Hole Collective Film Lab, 2017-Present
Recipient of Southern Exposure’s 2017 Alternative Exposure grant with Low Light Darkroom
Awards
2020 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Scholarship Award
2019 Association of Moving Image Archivists Savada Family Legacy Fund Travel GrantSelected Presentations
Presenter, Canyon Cinema Salon x Light Field, February 11, 2021
Panelist, 2021 Sundance Film Festival, The After After Life of Home Movies, Presented by the Center for Home Movies and the Roxie Theater, January 29
Guest Presenter and Collective Member, Commingled Containers: Echoes from the Bay,
Program 2—covalences: works from black hole collective film lab, San Francisco
Cinematheque, January 9Co-Presenter, Center for Asian American Media’s “Memories to Light,” After Dark Online: Sustenance—Home Movies, Exploratorium (Nov. 5, 2020)
Guest Speaker, Members of Light Field, CINE 601: Film Programming and Exhibitions Management, San Francisco State University, Lecturer Courtney Fellion, Spring 2020
Invited Panelist, “Home Movie Digitization and Access: New Models for Outreach,” 2019 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Baltimore, MD (Nov. 16)
Guest Artist and Presenter, Members of Black Hole Collective Film Lab, FILM 176: Experimental Video Workshop, University of California, Santa Cruz, Lecturer Emily Chao, Fall 2019
Selected Skills and Tools
Command and web languages: Bash, HTML, CSS
A/V: Final Cut Pro X, FFmpeg, MediaInfo
Imaging: Illustrator, InDesign
Data cleaning and visualization: OpenRefine, Tableau Public
CMS and databases: FileMaker Pro, Sierra ILS, DB Browser for SQLite
Media and archival handling: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, analog and digital video tapes, electric and manual rewinds, guillotine tape splicers, cement splicers
Moving and still image film development and printing: C41, Jobo, LOMO tanks, Bell & Howell Model D Contact Printer
Electronics: Basic electricity, electrical components, and circuits; schematics; multimeters; Arduino
Languages
Native English proficiency, Full Cebuano (Bisaya) proficiency, Working Tagalog proficiency, Elementary French proficiency