Michelle is a first-generation Central American artist, writer & educator living in the xučyun territory of the Ohlone people, also known as Oakland.

She is an MFA candidate studying Cinema at San Francisco State University, where she teaches Intro to Film Production.

Michelle believes in the power of cinema’s potential to provide a healing space for our imaginations, where harmful narratives can be dispelled and new ways of seeing and being can be imagined.

Working within traditions of ecological cinema, Michelle sees working with 16mm film as an aesthetic choice that is also political. Their process counters extractive modes of image-making through deep material attention & turning filmmaking into a practice of care.