Staff Assistant
Malina Chavez, an alum of the MFA|EDA program, is a self-taught writer and abstract artist.
She graduated cum laude with a BS in Photography from Middle Tennessee State University, where she completed minors in both Film Studies and International Media. During that time, she covered the Occupy movement in Nashville, TN.
Her Google Street project, the 1949 Armistice Agreement Line, was the recipient of the 2013 SPE Jeannie Pearce Award for Innovations in Imaging. As a member of the Society of Photographic Education, she served as a portfolio reviewer and workshop instructor, teaching Ink Transfer Film processes. Her work has been featured in the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Kiernan Gallery, Filter Photo, and the Chianciano Art Museum. You can learn more and view her work by visiting her website and Vimeo.
Prior to joining the GLS team, Chavez was the Program Coordinator for the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative at UNC Chapel Hill. She has been a teaching assistant in Information Science + Studies (Web Multimedia), the AAHV film course Matters of Life and Death, and the Coursera MOOC, History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education, as well as a PhD Lab Artist in Residence. She served as web assistant for the Center for Documentary Studies and marketing assistant for the MFA|EDA program.