What is your interest and/or background in Humanitarian affairs?
Individual Advocate, Artist
Please tell us a little more about you:
Marcela Morán is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas and has been leading Media Del Monte, a summer youth media-training institute in rural South Texas, since 2007. Morán earned a BS in Radio/TV/Film from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in Film from Ohio University. She is a border woman, raised on the US/Mexico border in Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México where she currently resides. Her work deals with migration/immigration, border landscape and bicultural issues. She is currently working on two documentary projects dealing with a network of five immigrant shelters in Latin America, Casas de Migrantes, (three in Mexico and two in Guatemala), run by Scalabrini missionaries.
Are you a member of any specific organization(s)?
No
What causes are you interested in or advocate?
migration, immigration reform, human rights
What are your favorite musicians/films/books which are related to or inspired by humanitarian issues?
Manu Chao, Born to Brothels, This Bridge Called My Back
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