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E D U C A T I O N

Truman State University May 2012

Kirksville, Missouri

Graduate Student MAE in Visual Arts

Fundación Universitaria Monserrate July 2006

Bogotá, Colombia. Teacher Training Program

Universidad Nacional de Colombia December 2000 Bogotá, Colombia. Filmmaking and Television Production with emphasis in Documentary

P R O F E S SI O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Spanish Peer Tutor, Truman State University, January 2009 - To present

• To assist college students in their Elementary and Intermediate Spanish classes

Videographer/Editor, Truman State University, January 2011- To present

• Responsible for the research, screenplay, recording and editing of two promotional documentaries. The videos talk about the way Truman State University organizations promote diversity on campus.

Videographer/ Truman State University, January 2011- To present

• Responsible for the recording and pre-editing of several events around campus.

Art Instructor, City of Kirksville. Art in the Park, July 2011 - August 2011

• To plan and teach art lessons to kids and youngsters.

French Play Visual Aid Assistant, Truman State University, April 11 - May 2011

• To prepare visual aid to be displayed during the performances of the French Play “L’explicateur” directed by Patrick Lobert.

Spanish Teacher, Faith Lutheran School, July 2009 - May 2010.

• To teach Spanish at the elementary level.

Art Teacher, Secretaría de Educación de Bogotá, Colombia, July 2005 – July 2008.

• To teach photography, video, voice, and art appreciation courses.

• To lead High School Children’s Choir and High School Photography group.

Audiovisual Workshop Instructor, Coinfa, Bogota, Colombia, January 2005 - December 2005.

• To teach Cinema basic skills in workshops directed to children, teenagers and adults at Art Formation School’s of Puente Aranda and Rafael Uribe Uribe localidades in Bogota.

• To record and edit two different institutional videos.

Aid Worker, Asociación Cultural Disparate Magdalena (Barcelona, España), Santa Marta, Colombia, August - September 2003 and September – December 2.001.

• To teach basic skills in cinema to children, teenagers and adults from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta’s North Slope.

• To lead the Movie Club Zune Cine, aimed at children’s public.

• To produce the video of the different activities of Disparate Magdalena.

Video Producer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, June -- December 2000.

• To produce videos of musical events such as Drums and Bagpipes Festival (Festival de Gaitas Y Tambores) celebrated in San Basilio of Palenque and Ovejas, Colombia, or the Tribute to Paulino Salgado Valdez, Batata.

Video Producer, Artesanías de Colombia, March -- December 1996.

• Responsible for the research, screenplay, recording and editing of the Ethnographical Documentary about Sikuani ethnic group, La Herencia de Atsakato (Atsakato’s Inheritance), which was part of Indigenous Handicraft Productive Project for Meta’s Department.

A C H I E V E M E N T S

Truman State University Grants-In-Aid-of-Student Research (GIASR) recipient. December, 2011

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Honorary Member since November, 2011.

Hummingbirds (Fibers). Juried Art Students Exhibition. Feb-April 2011.

Which came first? Best fictional video, Equinox Film Festival of Universidad Nacional, 1994, Bogotá, Colombia.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Window. (Photography). Published in Windfall. Truman State University. May 2011.

Umbrella. (Photography). Published in Windfall. Truman State University. May 2011

Self-portrait. (Fibers). Published in Windfall. Truman State University. May 2010.

Zune Cine. Published in Sobre relatos, cuentos y ensayos de cine clubes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Unibiblos, February 2003.

C O N F E R E N C E S

Truman’s Sixteenth’s Annual Women and Gender Studies conference at Truman State University. Weavers of Resilience. 2011.

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