U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2004

Re-Writing America: Multi-Ethnic Perspectives in Literature and the Media
Faculty

Dr. Chon A. Noriega

Dr. Chon A. Noriega is Professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, and Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema(Minnesota, 2000) and editor of nine books dealing with Latino media, performance and visual art. For the past decade, Noriega has been active in media policy and professional development, for which Hispanic Business named him as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics. He is co-founder of the 350-member National Association of Latino Independent Producers, which was established in 1999, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service, the largest source of independent project funding within public television. His projects include the recovery and preservation of Chicano independent films and video art, early Spanish-language recordings in the United States, and historical documents related to the Latino arts. He is completing a book on Chicano director Efrain Gutierrez.