Charlotte Maria Sáenz Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California

Interested in Interdisciplinary Studies on Critical and Liberatory Pedagogies, Indigenous Epistemologies and Economics, Decolonial Feminist Methodologies, Experimental Film, Community Media, Politics of Food, Zapatismo.

Oakland, California

Leads production and distribution of articles and interviews on global alternatives. Facilitates cultural-intellectual collaborations with artists, activists and academics, including an Other Worlds Cafe speaker series with CIIS. Develops land-rights campaigns in Haiti and Honduras as part of team. Supports social movements in Palestine, Turkey and Mexico.

San Francisco Bay Area

Global Education curriculum development and writing. Projects include a webinar series on medieval Japan for the Asian Art Museum, American Youth Leadership Programs to Peru and Costa Rica, Youth Ambassadors Program with Haiti, WorldSavvy Classrooms, and ongoing critical thinking on "Global Competence."

Mexico D.F., Oaxaca, Chiapas

Drawing on indigenous epistemologies as well as from the fields of anthropology, ecology, economics, environmental policy and politics, we examine how globalization, development and progress affect the planet and its inhabitants. Key questions of this program are: * What are the alternatives and possibilities being regenerated, imagined, and implemented for a just and sustainable world? * Which voices, social movements and ideas currently resist and challenge dominant development paradigms and policies? * What are the pathways now opened for dignified work and meaningful life? * What is the role and responsibility of each of us in addressing the broader human and ecological dimensions of globalization and in finding our own place and destiny?

Taught the following courses: The Art of Crossing the Street: Creativity & Community in 21st Century, and Doing Democracy (Department of Art Education) The Artist In Society (Liberal Arts), Autobiographical Strategies, and Media Practices: Moving Image, (both in Department of Film, Video, & New Media).

Lecturer, Humanities Division, Cinema & Media Studies: Self-Portraiture: creative expressions/alternate historiesPublic program: Contested Spaces: the global impact of community arts and media.

Curriculum and Evaluation Project Consultant, 2001-2002Coordinated youth and staff in creation of collection tools for integrated evaluation and curricular process. Managed technology team in the design and programming of on-line curriculum and evaluation tools.Co-Director,1999-2001Led executive decision-making and strategic planning for nationally recognized media arts organization together with fellow Co-Directors and Board of Directors. Worked with development and administrative team to raise program-specific funds, managing an organizational budget of $750,000. Represented organization at community technology network meetings and conferences, local and state funding agencies, and other related events.After-School Programs Director, 1999-2001Managed and supported staff at multimedia studios in the West Town, Bronzeville, and Uptown neighborhoods. Designed and implemented programs focused on critical media literacy and youth leadership.

Researcher, Ciencias De La Ecología Y Desarrolo Sustentable

Mfa, Film, Video, & New Media

Ed.M., International Education And Development

Ba, Art