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  1. 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, Berkeley

    Selected 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 Grant

    Selected 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 9

    Co-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