Education
BFA in Sculpture, Minor in Art History / State University of New York at New Paltz, 2001
MFA, Image Text, Ithaca College, 2022
Public Reading Events
Push the Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2023)
• The Head and the Hand Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA (2024)
• Northampton Friends Meeting House, Northampton, MA (2024)
• Bluestocking Cooperative Bookstore, New York, NY (2024)
• Wooden Shoe Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA (2024)
• People’s Forum, New York, NY (2024)
• Cornell Image Text MFA, virtual event (2024)
• Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD (2024)
• Tzedek Chicago, virtual event (2024)
• AP Books, Berlin, Germany 2022
Films & Screenings
Untitled: altar to a memory of a ritual (2022)
• Everything Must Go! AP Books, Berlin, Germany 2022
Mexicans Lost in Mexico (2020)
• Visible Poetry Project, 2020
• Street Movies! Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2020
• Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angelos, CA / Official Selection, 2020
• Midwest Video Poetry Fest, Madison, WI / Official Selection, 2020
Of Origins, Part 2: Emma (2019)
• 14th XPOSED: International Queer Film Festival, Berlin / Official Selection, 2019
• Experimental Forum / Honorable Mention, 2019
• Berlin Illambra Experimental Film Festival, Berlin / Official Selection, 2019
• Queer Identity and Popular Culture, New York University, NY / Invited Screening, 2019
Of Origins, Part 1: Hannah (2016)
• Realización Cinematográfica, University of Montevideo, Uruguay / Invited Screening, 2020
• Berlin Lesbian Non-Binary Film Festival, Berlin, Germany / Official Selection, 2020
• 2020 SPE Media Festival, Huston, Texas/ Official Selection, 2020
• Queer Identity and Popular Culture, New York University, NY / Invited Screening 2019
• Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London, England / Official Selection, 2019
• Duplex Presents: Magic Hour, New York City, NY, 2019
• Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark / Semi-Finalist, 2019
• Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, Las Cruces, NM / Official Selection, 2019
• Feel The Reel International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK, 2019
• SpringOut! Middle Tennessee LGBT+ Film Festival, Murfreesboro, TN / Official Selection, 2019
• Dumbo Film Festival, New York City, NY, 2019
• Feminist Film Series: Animation Shorts, Media Center Barnard College, NY / Semi-Finalist, 2019
• International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund, Germany / Official Selection, 2018
• Grrl Haus Cinema, Berlin, Germany / Official Selection 2018
• Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan / Official Selection, 2018
• Newfest: New York LGBT Film Festival, New York City, NY / Official Selection, 2018
• Reel Change: Leeway @ 25 Film Festival, PhillyCAM, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2018
• MIX 29 NYC, Brooklyn, NY / Official Selection, 2018
• Chicago Feminist Film Festival, Chicago, IL / Official Selection, 2017
• XPOSED International Queer Film Festival, Berlin, Germany / Official Selection, 2017
• 32° Torino LGBTQI Film Festival, Torino, Italy / Official Selection, 2017
• Philly Film Showcase, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2017
• Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival, Seattle, WA / Official Selection, 2017
• Queere Kurzfilmnacht: XPOSED im atelier automatique, Berlin, Germany / Invited, 2017
• Cannery, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2017
• Haverford College, Haverford, PA / Invited, 2017
I Told Her This Was Home (2013)
• Turning the Lens: New Middle Eastern Queer & Feminist Filmmakers, MLA Conference, Austin, TX / Invited, 2016
• She Found Her Place, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2015
• Jewish Voice For Peace, National Conference, Baltimore, MD / Invited, 2015
• BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, London, England / Official Selection, 2014
• Experiments in Cinema v9.72, Albuquerque, NM / Official Selection, 2014
• Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Austin, TX / Official Selection, 2014
• Still Untitled: A Quarterly Literary Salon, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2014
• Haverford College, Haverford, PA / Invited, 2014
• Mix Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY / Official Selection, 2013
Collections: Water (2010)
• Moles Not Molar, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2011
How the Bridge Works (2010)
• Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, NC / Official Selection, 2011
• BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London, England / Official Selection, 2011
• De Anza Experimental Film Exhibition, Los Gatos, CA / Official Selection, 2011
• Moles Not Molar, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA / Invited, 2011
• Mix Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY / Official Selection, 2010
Young, Jewish and Left (2006)
• Portland Jewish Film Festival, Portland, ME / Official Selection, 2008
• Free Speech TV, New York City, NY / Invited, 2008
• Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, Amherst, MA / Official Selection, 2007
• Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN / Official Selection, 2007
• Not Quite Kosher Film Festival, San Diego, CA / Official Selection, 2007
• Big Muddy Film Festival, Chicago, IL / Official Selection, 2007
• Jewdas Jewish Film Festival, London, England / Official Selection, 2007
• Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY / Invited, 2007
• ARPA International Film Festival, Hollywood, CA / Official Selection, 2006
• Anthology Film Archive, New York City, NY / Invited, 2006
• Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY / Invited, 2006
Full list of Community Screenings available here
Publications
Push the Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2023)
Everything Must Go! (Contributor, Edited by Jason Fulford, Image Text Ithaca, 2022)
Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls…A Coloring Book (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
Grants & Awards
Art and Change Award, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA / 2006
Best Documentary Award, ARPA Int'l Film Festival, Hollywood, CA / Nominated, 2006
Production Experience
Production Designer, Detonator / Dirs: Damon Maulucci and Keir Politz, 2011
Camera & Editor, We Did Not Come Here to Fight: The Struggle for a Safe Education / Produced for: UPenn Documentaries and the Law Program, 2011
Video Production, 18 Keys / Collaborators: Damien Luxe and Jenna Peters-Golden, 2011
Camera & Editor, Human Rights for the People by the People / Produced for: Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, 2010
Associate Production Designer, I Am John Wayne / Dir: Christina Choe, 2010
Contributing Filmmaker, Norman Schwarzkopf Made Me Gay / Dir: Sara Zia Ebrahimi, 2010
Assistant Producer & Assistant Art Director, Topo Gigio is Dead / Dir: David Hardy, 2010
Stylist, AWOL / Dir: Deb Shoval, 2009
Editor, Pennhurst: The Road to Civil Rights for People with Disability / Produced for: UPenn Documentaries and the Law Program, 2009
Contributing Filmmaker, The Odyssey: 24 Films/42 Characters / Dir: Bernadine Mellis, 2007
Studio Experience
Studio Assistant and Builder, Black Bird Theater, Rosendale, NY (2003)
Mold Maker & Finisher, Grail Studio Bronze Foundry, Kingston, NY (2001–02)
Studio Assistant, Lesley Dill, Accord, NY (2001)
Technical Assistant, Sylvia Benitez, Accord, NY (2000)
Studio Assistant, Allen Glovsky, Accord, NY (2000)
Assistant Technician, Sculpture Department, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (2000)