Michelle is a first-generation Central American artist and filmmaker living in the xučyun territory of the Ohlone people, also known as Oakland. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Cinema at SFSU, and has an interdisciplinary background in sociology and psychology.
In their personal work, Michelle draws from their personal experiences, exploring themes of queer identity, race, immigration, climate change, and intergenerational healing. Many of her works ask the question- what does it mean to be an embodied person in the diaspora? Centering those living on the margins is a way in which they weave in social justice into their filmmaking.
Other works of theirs engage with the spirit realm, interrogating the themes of grief, death, and the supernatural in order to de-stigmatize and bring light to the deep connectedness we find when we open ourselves up to these experiences.
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