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 Film Production at San Francisco State University, where she teaches Intro to Film Production.

Michelle believes in the power of filmmaking to push humanity’s imagination forward; cinema has the potential to provide a healing space for our imaginations, where harmful narratives can be dispelled and new ways of seeing and being can be experienced.

Working within traditions of ecological cinema, Michelle sees working with 16mm film as an aesthetic choice that is also political. Through slowness, material attention, and care, their work resists extractive modes of image-making and tends to the relationships and people she connects with in the process.