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Isara is an independent filmmaker, director, cameraperson, writer and journalist based in Oakland, California. Through her work she aims to highlight the effects of structural injustice on historically marginalized & ignored communities in the US. She also explores themes of art as activism, community, healing and joy. She specializes in observational, verité camerawork, capturing raw human moments as they happen.As an on-call producer for KQED Arts (San Francisco Bay Area PBS/NPR affiliate), Isara produces, shoots and edits short documentaries about local artists and activists that reach a nationwide audience. In 2022, her directorial debut Disability Arts Ensemble Takes Access & Dance to New Heights––an episode of KQED Arts’ award-winning series If Cities Could Dance––was KQED's first entirely accessible online video, and was nominated for a NorCal Regional Emmy® Award, and received a Society of Professional Journalists’ 2022 NorCal Excellence in Journalism award.Isara was the assistant editor for the critically acclaimed documentaries, CNN Films’ John Lewis: Good Trouble (dir. Dawn Porter 2020, Magnolia Pictures), and The Way I See It (dir. Dawn Porter 2020, Focus Features). Her photography, writing and video journalism have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Content Magazine, CrossCut Seattle, EdSource and The Grotto Network. She has been hired to direct, shoot and edit short documentaries for the East Bay AIDS Center; Women Organized Against Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD), a grass-roots Oakland organization helping unhoused women learn about and wean off opioid abuse; and for the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, the only public high school in the US with a World Art curriculum.

Listed skills include Research, Editing, Social Media, Blogging, and 12 others.