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clara pérez medina | bio

Clara is a queer/nonbinary Venezuelan documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Oakland, California who shines a loving light on transformative community work in the world. They blend their academic training in oral history and political economy with their cinematographic eye for the relationalities of care that make and unmake systems of domination. They are working towards their PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and have showcased their photographic and film work in community screenings and festivals around the Bay Area.

Currently they are working on a collaborative film project with Moms4Housing about the intergenerational lines of care that they have sustained in Oakland, before and after their famous 2019 occupation of a developer-owned house where they asserted that Housing is a Human Right!

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Education

2017

Emory University, BA - Major: Sociology, Minor: Sustainability

2023

University of California, Berkeley - Masters in Sociology

In Process

University of California, Berkeley - PhD in Geography

Awards & Recognition

2024

University of California Humanities Research Institute -Multicampus Faculty Working Group, with Brandi Summers & juleon robinson

2023

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Graduate Research Fellow

2019-
2024

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Teaching and Mentorship

2020

Reader & Guest Lecturer, "Political and Economic Development in the Third World," African American Studies, with Dr. Tianna Paschel

2021

Graduate Student Instructor, "Sociology 101," Sociology, with Dr. Tianna Paschel

2022

Graduate Student Instructor, "Latinx Sociology," Sociology, with Dr. Cristina Mora

2022, 2024

Graduate Student Mentor, Berkeley Bridge Connect

2019-

2024

Mellon Mays Graduate Mentor, four undergraduate theses, Sociology, Geography, Political Science, Ethnic Studies

2022-

2023

Geography Undergraduate Mentoring Program Mentor, one undergraduate thesis, Geography

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