Marcela Morán,
MFA, Associate Professor of Communication
amoran@tamiu.edu (956) 326-3047
Education:
Ohio University
Master of Fine Arts, Film - College of Fine Arts. Degree received March 1998.
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Radio-Television-Film-College of Communication.
Degree received May 1993.
Teaching:
Texas A&M International University:
Fall 2012- current - Associate Professor- Communication. Department of Psychology and Communication- Undergraduate Courses taught: Digital Filmmaking I and II, Post-Production Editing I and II, Film Studies, Film History, Internship, Ethnography and Documentary Filmmaking in the Border Region (graduate course), Mexican and Latino Cinema (graduate course).
Spring 2012 - Assistant Professor- Communication. Department of Psychology and Communication- Courses taught: Video I, Video II, Photography I, Photography II and III, Post-Production Editing I/II, Film Studies, and Speech.
2006-2011-Assistant Professor- Communication. Department of Language and Literature - Courses taught: Video I, Video II, Photography I, II and III, Post-Production Editing I/II, Mass Media Processes, Film Studies, Special Issues in Documentary Filmmaking, Film History, and Literature and Film.
2005-2006 -Visiting Assistant Professor- Communication. Department of Language and Literature - Courses taught: Video I, Video II, Photography I, Post-Production Editing I/II, Mass Media Processes, Film Studies, and Speech.
2003-2005 - Adjunct Faculty– Department of Fine and Performing Arts and Department of Language and Literature. Courses Taught: Photography I (COMM/ARTS), Intermediate Photography (COMM/ARTS), Photography III (ARTS), Video Production I (COMM), Video Production II (COMM), and Mass Media Processes (COMM).
Media Del Monte at Hecho en Encinal:
June –July 2009 and June- July 2008-Facilitator/Filmmaker- led intensive five and six-week documentary workshops for underserved high school students in rural south Texas (Encinal, Texas).
August 2007-Facilitator/Filmmaker -youth media workshops. Part of the Rural Filmmaker's Exchange, and led by filmmakers from Appalshop (KY), funded by the National Endowments for the Arts, Encinal and Cotulla, Texas.
Ohio University School of Film:
1996-1997-Instructor – Film Production – undergraduate course in basic 16mm motion picture production, Athens, Ohio.
1997-Teaching Assistant Sound 1 and 2/Sound Mixer –undergraduate and graduate courses in motion picture sound. Also assisted the management of The Peterson Sound Studio, – a motion picture sound studio for both 16mm & 35mm film formats. Oversaw and assisted soundtrack mixing for motion picture sound, sound recording, and additional dialogue recording, Athens, Ohio.
1994-1995-Teaching Assistant ––Film History, Film Analysis & Three Genres- winter 1995 and spring 1995, and Chinese Cinema- fall 1994, Athens, Ohio.
Film Festival/Screenings/Awar
Cartoneros- producer/director/editor, a documentary that explores cardboard scavenging on the U.S-Mexico Border:
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival, Winner “Best Direction” 2023, Los Angeles, CA, September 26, 2023.
14th Annual Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival, Winner “Waste Award” 2023, Alachua, Florida, February 2023.
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival, Official Selection, Los Angeles, California, November 2023.
Sustainable Stories Film Festival, Official Selection, Official Selection, The University of Houston, Clear Lake, December 2022.
National Communication Association (NCA) 108th Annual Convention, Official Selection, Engaging in Place Through Film, Theater, Film, and New Media Division. New Orleans, Louisiana, November 202
Señorita Cinema, Official Selection, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, October 2022.
Fronteriza- producer/director/editor, documentary that explores the stories of five intergenerational border women in Laredo, Texas :
SA Film Festival, Official Selection, San Antonio, Texas – August 3, 2019.
National Communication Association (NCA) 104th Annual Convention, Fronteriza received Top Film, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 9,2018.
Best Shorts Competition- Fronteriza (Border Woman) Award of Recognition: Women Filmmakers, September 2018. http://bestshorts.net/past-winners/award-of-recognition-september-2018/
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)- Conviviencia y Resistencia, Fronterizas for Social Justice, screening- Summer Institute at The University of Texas El Paso, August 4, 2018.
Jornaleras- producer/director/editor, Documentary dealing with three immigrant women working in New York City:
VIII World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), “Marginalia: The Borders of the Border”. Visualizing the Invisible: Documentaries-screening. Texas A&M International University, Laredo TX, July 20, 2017
Alt Girl Cinema –screening and guest speaker-La Peña Cultural Art Center, Austin, Texas- January 23, 2016.
The NCA Film Festival –Official Selection of the 2015 National Communication Association Film Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada – November 2015.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival - official selection Hecho en Tejas series, presented by Cine las Americas and Texas Archive of the Moving Image, Austin, Texas–April 22 -25, 2015.
The Athens International Film Festival - official selection, Athens, Ohio -April 3 - 9. 2015.
Red Casas Del Migrante Scalabrini- producer/director/editor, Documentary dealing with five immigrant shelters in Mexico and Guatemala: https://youtu.be/Wx4eMJT0lf4
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival - official entry, Austin, Texas April 19-22,2011.
Fences, Walls and Borders: State of Insecurity? May 17-18, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada- screening and panel discussion, international conference at the University of Quebec at Montreal.
Built on Stories, Red Casas Del Migrante screening, Luggage Store Gallery Annex April 4-23, 2011, San Francisco, California.
Insight Arts- Center for New Possibilities, Screening, Chicago, Illinois - December 30, 2010.
Audiencia –producer/director, short documentary about Lucha Libre in Laredo, Texas:
https://youtu.be/hZjnnxPDaqc
Mexic-Arte Museum- Fotografía y Nuevos Medios: Selections from the Permanent Collection- Exhibit explores the plurality of resistance, highlighting varied lineages of Latinx and Latin American resistance. Photography, video, installation, and experimental forms- Audiencia screening/installation, Austin, Texas January 26-May 27, 2018.
Mexic-Arte Museum- Selections from the Contemporary Art Collection, Audiencia screening/installation, Austin, Texas - January 23- May 31, 2015.
The XXXVI Anniversary of Merah Putih Art Studio of Makassar, Art’s Day Festival - Audiencia screening, Indonesia, May 2014.
Mexic-Arte Museum- Unmasked exhibit, Audiencia screening/installation, Austin, Texas - January 5th- May 5, 2013.
Mexic-Arte Museum- Arts on the Move featured artist/guest speaker. Work presented: Audiencia screening/installation Austin, Texas - April 2009.
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum – Transformative Journeys: A Symposium - Audiencia screening Austin, Texas - April 2009.
Enmascadores: Homage to Lucha Libre. Audiencia video screening/group art show –Pump Projects Gallery Austin, Texas - September 2008, Gallista Gallery, San Antonio, Texas - April 2009, Casa del la Cultura Del Rio, Texas - August 2009, K-Space, Corpus Christi, Texas - September 2009.
Red Wasp Film Festival- official entry, Bryan Texas October 24 & 25, 2008
Rural Filmmaker’s Exchange – Screening, Seedtime Festival at Appalshop - Whitesburg, Kentucky. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, June 2008.
Casa Del Migrante - writer/director/editor, short documentary: https://youtu.be/g337_uxcDBw
NYC Downtown Short Film Festival - Winner! Best Documentary New York, New York - June 5-7, 2006.
Mexic-Arte Museum - Arts on the Move featured artist/guest speaker. Casa Del Migrante screening, Austin, Texas - April 2009.
The 2009 10th Annual Cine Cuauhtémoc Pan American Film Festival, Houston, Texas - September 2009.
Grassroots Films: Connecting the American Experience film series presented by Hecho en Encinal funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Cotulla, Texas - August 17, 2007.
Indiefest film festival- Chicago, Illinois – July- August 2007.
The Athens International Film Festival - Athens, Ohio - spring 2007.
Harlem International Film Festival - New York, New York - October 4-8, 2006.
The 10th Annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival- Los Angeles, California - September 5-14, 2006.
NYC Downtown Short Film Festival- Best of Festival Screening, New York, New York - June 5-7, 2006.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival- Austin, Texas - April 19-22, 2006.
Exprésate - Universidad Valle Del Bravo, - Screening/ Speaker, Theme: documentaries and other projects, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Mexico - May 17, 2007.
Sound Art Space for Contemporary Art – Casa Del Migrante screening- Laredo, Texas - May 20, 2006.
Judith’s Kitchen – writer/director/editor- MFA thesis film, ten-minute black & white 16mm film:
Sedona International Film Festival- Women in Film screening, Sedona, Arizona- 1999.
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival – San Francisco, California – September 1999.
Women in the Director’s Chair 18th Annual International Film &Video Festival – Chicago, Illinois – March 19-28, 1999.
Women in the Director’s Chair 1999-2000 Film Tour - United States tour.
Short Pictures International Film Festival (SPIFF) – Hollywood, California - November 19-21, 1998.
The 2nd Annual Latino Film Festival of Marin – Marin County, California. October 28-November 1, 1998.
The 1998 Marin County Film Festival – Judith’s Kitchen Winner Third Prize Experimental Short, San Rafael, California. July 2-5, 1998.
Grants:
National Science Foundation (NSF) Improve Undergraduate STEM Education, a grant for $1,649,197. Awarded, 2020-2021, 2022-2023, 2023-2024. Senior Personnel for student video productions.
Presidential Research Development Grant (2024) Co-principal investigator with Dr. Soto Vasquez, PI, Dr. Ariadne Gonzalez, CO-PI, and Cindy Collier Salazar, CO-PI, A Culturally Centered Narrative Video Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes Management in South Texas, $49,352.
University Innovation Grant (2023), The TAMIU New Media Innovation Lab, Texas A&M International University, Communication Faculty awarded $49,790.
Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund, Austin Film Society (2010) – Recipient, Austin Film Society – Jornaleros(as).
University Research Grant –Recipient, Texas A&M International University, fall 2009 and spring 2010.
Conferences:
Association of Borderlands Studies/Latin American Studies & Chicano/Latinx/Iberian Culture- Social Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Identity through the Arts (Cartoneros) panel, San Antonio, Texas, April 4, 2024.
Global Fusion, The Moody School of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, Documenting Cardboard Scavenging on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Global Borders, and Media: Panel 1 Session, September 23, 2023.
Creating Justice Symposium, Women Working on Border Topics: Intervention and Negotiation of the Creative Process panel, Presenter Virtual, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois, April 20, 2022.
International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAIS) 6th Biennial Conference, Walls, Bridges, Borders, Latinx Artists and the U.S-Mexico Border panel, presenter, Exploring scavenging practices in the border region through documentary film, Virtual Convention, November 13, 2021.
National Communication Association (NCA) 106th Annual Convention, Communication at the Crossroads, Teaching Communication through accessible media, reflection, and dialogue, presenter, Theatre, Film and Multi-Media Division, Virtual Convention, November 20, 2020.
National Communication Association (NCA) 105th Annual Convention, Surviving the U.S. Mexico Border Using Media Production, Presenter, Theatre, Film and Multi-Media Division, Baltimore, Maryland, November 17, 2019.
4th AULA Symposium- Porous Borders, Fronteriza presentation “Contestation and Resistance” presenter, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, March 30, 2018.
Center for Mexican American Studies and Research Conference at Our Lady of the Lake University, film presenter Casa Del Migrante, San Antonio, Texas - March 22- 24, 2012.
Association of Borderland Studies – Borderlands: Short Films screening, Houston Texas - April 11-14, 2012.
Association of Borderlands Studies Moderator Violent Energy in Life and Literature, Houston, Texas –April 11-14, 2012.
National Technology and Social Science, Professional Development Fall Conference– Jornaleros in Retrospect, presenter, New Orleans, Louisiana - October 9-11, 2011.
10th Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference in Alcala de Henares - Using Alternative Media to Deconstruct Immigration Discourse, presenter, Madrid, Spain - April 2011.
Creatively Engaging in Social Issues: Artists and Immigration – featured artist/Casa Del Migrante screening co-sponsored by Insight Arts, the Latino Union and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois - June 27, 2009.
National Technology and Social Science Conference – Proyecto Scalabrini Moderno, presenter, Las Vegas, Nevada - April 5-7, 2009.
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum – Transformative Journeys: A Symposium - featured artist. Work shown: Nite Lites photography series, Austin, Texas April 2009.
Additional scholarship/recognitions:
Miraaa Film Festival- Video Installation, Dear, Laredo, Texas, February 24, 2024.
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society- presenter, Reflecting on Scavenging Practices in the Border Region, Love of Learning Seminar Series, October 27, 2023.
Delta Kappa Gamma, Alpha Nu, International. Society for Key Women Educators, Laredo, Chapter, guest speaker, Cartoneros, October 7, 2023.
Mexic-Arte Museum- Audiencia, the film became part of museum’s permanent collection, Austin, Texas - January 2013.
Faculty Art Exhibit- - DEAR– Video and Audio installation- Texas A&M International University, Center for the Fine and Performing Gallery, Laredo, Texas - September-October 2013.
Publication- Moran, M. (2012). Jornaleros in Retrospect. National Social Science Technology Journal, 2.
Teacher of the Year- Texas A&M International University, College of Arts and Sciences 2012.
Faculty Art Exhibit- Stopping Places – photography and video- Texas A&M International University, Center for the Fine and Performing Gallery, Laredo, Texas - January-March 2012.
Women Out Loud - Audiencia screening and Nite Lites photo exhibit hosted by Insight Arts at the Center for New Possibilities, Chicago Illinois - June 26, 2009.
Eyes on The Border – All female group art show. Nite Lites photo series 35mm transparencies and digital photographs- 11 by 14 ink jet prints. Tarrant Community College Gallery- Arlington, Texas, January 2008.
Estación Palabra – screening of Audiencia and Casa Del Migrante, part of a cultural exchange between TAMIU communication students and architecture students from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico - February 7, 2009.
U.S. State Department Foreign Press Center- Reporting Tour- Casa Del Migrante screening Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas - March 10, 2009
International Women’s Day Honoree/Guest Speaker – Casa del Migrante screening, Laredo Community College- South Campus, Laredo, Texas - March 8, 2007.
Marcela Moran Library Collection – Judith Zaffirini Library at Laredo Community College- South Campus - Laredo, Texas - announced March 8, 2007.
Additional Production/ Industry Experience:
Line Producer (Laredo/Nuevo Laredo) – The Americana Project “Laredo, TX”– HD film project, director Topaz Adizes, May 2007.
Assistant Director (Guerreo Viejo, Mexico) – La Marchanta – 16mm motion picture experimental film, director Anne Wallace- June 2007.
Documentary DV Filmmaker- Hispanics in South Texas –National Geographic project, photographer Penny Del Los Santos, February 2006.
Documentary DV Filmmaker –A Day in a Life: American Woman-South Texas. Documentary project on a national women’s photography book project, May 2005.
Documentary DV Filmmaker –America 24/7 -PBS Documentary Project: first national digital photography book project, May 2003.
Assistant Photographer –Hispanics in South Texas, National Geographic assignment, photographer Penny Del Los Santos, December 2003 - January 2004.
Coordinator –Freelance coordinator to director of Television Commercials. Believe Media, Los Angeles/New York, August 2000 – November 2001.
Writer –Freelance writer for television commercials: Ipix.com “Destination” and “Launch”, Thingamajob.com “Airplane” and “Human”, August 1998 – April 2001.
Editor- Freelance editor TV commercials: Maryland Lottery “2x4”, Gap- Casuals-ex” Amtrak “Dreams”, DHL “Flea” and “Post Mortem”, Sony DTV “Pixelmen”,
August 1998 – April 2001.
Apprentice – Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, CA. Visual FX Editorial Department: Godzilla, Snow Falling on Cedars, Patch Adams, You’ve Got Mail, Stewart Little, Big Daddy, Ninth Gate, Castaway, and the Hollow Man, April 1998 to October 1999.
Professional Service/Organizations/Other:
Juror, Cultivarte/Daphne Art Foundation, Laredo, Texas, Residency Juror for V-AIR Artist in Residency.
Guest, The University of Texas, El Paso, COMM 4372 Methods of Research, presented to 50 students on the topic of participant observation methodology through the lens of the documentary film – October 11, 2021.
DKG International Society for Key Women Educators, Delta Kappa Gamma Alpha Nu chapter- member, Spring 2021- present, Laredo, Texas.
Organizer/Moderator –ACTIVIZED, a documentary directed by Eric Strange - Texas A&M International University, College of Arts & Sciences, Laredo, Texas- February 19th, 2020.
Guest Speaker- Learn Think Media Youth Film Festival – September 21, 2019, Alamo Drafthouse Laredo, Texas.
Coordinator/Moderator- The Current War screening for students, September 25, 2pm, Alamo Drafthouse Laredo, Texas.
Coordinator/Moderator- The Current War fundraising screening, September 25, at 7 pm, Alamo Drafthouse Laredo, Texas.
Coordinator-Rebel Without a Crew-Filmmaking Workshops, and Film Screenings of Phaedra Scarlet Moreno, and Monday by Alejandro Montoya Marin, Sept. 7 and 8, 2018.
Judge- Freedom Elementary 1st Annual Technology Fair, Laredo, Texas
April 12, 2018.
Juror- Transform Film Festival, Austin, Texas – January 10, 2018.
Judge- Tech Fair, Centeno Elementary, Laredo, Texas – March 31, 2017.
National Communication Association - member 2015-2022.
Moderator –An Evening with Award Winning director Alfonso Gomez Rejon, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, IBC Annex, Plaza Partners Inc. Laredo, Texas- July16, 2015.
Panelist –Latinos Americas, PBS screening, Texas A&M International University, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Laredo, Texas- September 10, 2013.
Sames Scholars Mentor- Mentor to United South High School Seniors-2013-2015.
Association of Borderlands Studies, member, 2012,2024.
Insight Arts- board member, non-profit community arts organization- Chicago, Illinois-2011-2014.
Panelist -Texas Film Commission Production Assistant Workshop, La Posada Hotel, Laredo, Texas- January 16-17, 2010.
Guest Speaker- Chroma Key and Special Effects presentation Centeno Elementary, Laredo, Texas - March 2010.
Rural Filmmakers Exchange – A film and cultural exchange between filmmakers in South Texas and Kentucky, Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts- participant- Summer 2007 and 2008.
AKA Collective – Artist Collective -member– a division of the non-profit organization Arts for Everyone, South Texas, 2006-2008.
The Laredo Center for the Arts - Board member, and Exhibition Review Committee- member, Laredo, Texas - 2004-2009.
Salsa- Committee member, Annual Laredo Community College/Texas A&M International University student art juried show, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Associate Director/Curator – Sound Art Space, Laredo, Texas 2005-2007:
1. Bruc Fugue, Megan and Murray McMillan - installation and performance. Jan 2007.
2. It’s like that all we got to look forward to these days Adam Parker Smith-installation, large-scale drawings, textiles, and paintings - October 2006.
3. Consequence, George Lopez -drawing and painting - June 2005.
4. Verbum new paintings by Jerry Cabrera - November 2005.
5. Sound Experimental Film Festival, Sound Art Space, Laredo, Texas- December 2007, 2006, and 2005.
Guest Speaker – United High School Career Day, Laredo, Texas - November 21, 2006.
Juror –The Laredo Art Annual Juried Show- Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, Texas- fall 2006.
Judge –Fine Arts Fiesta, United Independent School District, Laredo, Texas-spring 2005.
University Service:
Interim Director of the Master of Arts in Communication- Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), 2023-present
University Curriculum Committee- TAMIU, 2023-present.
KLRN TAMIU Studio Committee, Chair –TAMIU, Spring 2015- present.
Faculty Senate-TAMIU, 2011- 2012, Department of Language and Literature senator, and 2013- 2023, Senator at Large.
University Promotion, Tenure and Retention Committee- TAMIU, 2012- present.
Awards Committee, Chair, Faculty Senate, fall 2022. TAMIU: Responsible for coordinating and disseminating information regarding the Distinguished Scholar of the Year, Distinguished Teacher of the Year, and Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Reports to the Senate.
Distance Education and Instructional Technology Committee, Member, Faculty Senate, 2022 TAMIU: considers issues and proposals related to distance learning and technology involving students and faculty and other university employees and reports to the Senate.
Faculty Sponsor- The Filmmaker’s Guild, TAMIU student film club, 2022-present.
Reviewer- TAMIU, College of Arts & Sciences, Research Release 2022.
Guest Speaker – TAMIU, Signature Course UNIV1402: Representations of Marginalized People in Media, Cartoneros documentary production, Laredo, Texas – March 21, 2024.
Guest Speaker – TAMIU, Signature Course UNIV1402: An“other” Perspective; video documentary workshop, Laredo, Texas – March 27, 2019, and February 18, 2020.
Honors Council, member- TAMIU, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Ethics Committee, Chair- TAMIU Faculty Senate, 2018-2020.
Faculty-led Study Abroad Program in Italy- Courses taught: Photography II: The People and Culture of Italy, and Italian Cinema (Rome and Florence), TAMIU, July 14-August 14, 2014.
Lamar Bruni Vergara Conference Committee- TAMIU, 2015.
Lamar Bruni Vergara Academic Conference– Judge - Oral presentations, Poster Session, TAMIU, Laredo, Texas, spring 2012.
Instructor- Math, Science and Technology Teacher Preparation Academy (MSTTPA) Title IV Grant – photography and video workshops for Math and Science teachers, TAMIU, Laredo, Texas - fall 2010.
Moderator/Panelist- Screening of Teorema de Jenny, a short film based on a story by Dr. Jose Cardona, TAMIU, Laredo, Texas - spring 2010.
Moderator/Presenter - Reading the Globe: The TAMIU Freshmen Experience- film screenings, The Killing Fields and Trade, Laredo, Texas - October 2010.
The Bridge –Advisor TAMIU student newspaper 2006-2015.
Communication Program Coordinator -TAMIU 2012.
Search Committee Chair – Assistant Professor of Communication, Department of Psychology and Communication, TAMIU, spring 2016, AND spring/fall 2014.
Search Committee Chair - Speech Instructors, Department of Language and Literature, 2009-2010, TAMIU.
Additional Search Committees – TAMIU:
1. Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Department of Psychology & Communication, committee member 2023-2024.
2. Director of the First Year Writing Program, Department of Humanities, committee member 2023-2024.
3. Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Fine & Performing Arts, committee member 2023-2024.
4. Lecturer of Strategic Communication, Department of Psychology and Communication, RELLIS campus, 2024.
5. Assistant Professor of American Literature, Department of Humanities, committee member 2021-2022, AND 2022-2023.
6. Assistant Professor of American Literature, Department of Humanities, committee member 2019- 2020.
7. Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature, Department of Humanities, committee member Summer 2019.
8. Instructor of Communication, Department of Psychology and Communication, committee member 2016-2017.
9. Full Professor of Communication, Department of Psychology and Communication, committee member 2011-2012.
10. Assistant Professor of Communication (Tenure Track), Department of Language and Literature, committee member 2009-2010.
11. Assistant Professor of Spanish (Tenure Track), Department of Language and Literature, committee member 2008-2009.
12. Assistant Professor of Psychology (Tenure Track), Department of Social Sciences, 2007- committee member 2008.
Project Director – The TAMIU Annette Olsen-Fazi International Film Festival, sponsored by Humanities Texas, FACE and Venevision, Laredo, Texas -May 2009.
Project Director – Writing with Light/Escitura con Luz, - writing and visual arts exhibit of Photography II and Spanish student work- TAMIU, Latin American Studies Week, sponsored by a UISFL (Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program grant, U.S. Department of Education), April 13- 17, 2009.
Facilitator/Curator- Writing with Light –Photography II and Creative Writing student exhibit, and photography workshops for elementary school 5th graders from United Day and Encinal elementary schools led by workshops taught by Photo II students. -Sponsored by Smithsonian-Ford Foundation, TAMIU, Laredo, Texas-March 2007.
Workshops/Seminars:
Quality Matters (QM), Teaching Online: An Introduction to Online Delivery (TOL) workshop- TAMIU Office of Information Technology (OIT) professional development- July 30 -August 13, 2020.
Making Your Course Content Accessible webinar-TAMIU Office of Information Technology (OIT) professional development- July 23, 2020.
Course Arc-workshop-TAMIU Office of Information Technology (OIT) professional development- July 21, 2020.
Teaching Live Broadcast with Echo360- Webinar-Office Instructional Technology (OIT) TAMIU professional development- July 20, 2020,
Service-Learning Sophomore Success seminar participant, PROF Center at TAMIU, Title V Grant -Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions, U.S. Department of Education - Summer 2012.
Sophomore Success seminar participant, PROF Center at TAMIU, Title V Grant -Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions, U.S. Department of Education - Summer 2011.
Participant - Investigators and Reporters and Editors, Inc. Workshop - Journalism coverage of issues on the Texas/Mexico border, La Posada Hotel, Laredo, Texas-November 12- 13, 2010.
Learning Communities seminar participant, PROF Center at TAMIU, Title V Grant. Developed upper-division learning community: COMM 3324 Film Studies: The Films of Roman Polanski and ENGL 4398 Literary Genres- July 2009.