University of Hawaii at Manoa
Komohana Extension Center
875 Komohana St
Hilo, HI 96720
Special Projects
(Filmography)
Short Documentary. “Understanding Humans Perceived Relationship with Their Environment”. 2015.
I made this video to gain a better understanding of human’s perceptions of their relationship to their environment. Is there a perceived separation between humans and nature? And do those perceptions have implications for subsequent environmental values, attitudes and behaviors. While many of the students I interviewed believe they themselves are a part of nature, they largely describe a natural environment as one void of any human interference. Gaining an understanding of this apparent contradiction may lead to better awareness if the importance of people's perceptions of themselves in nature, and how that perception relates to management and policy.
ALEPH Film Festival: Mexico. June 2021. Art-Science Film Festival: Medicine and it’s Boarders
Title of Film: Inside the Looking Pill: Art is a lens that imagines us from within.
Cooperators: WATS; Fernanda Vizzuet, Joanna Bloese, Rodrigo Viñas, Ana Karen Barajas, Ilana Boltvinik.
“Inside the Looking Pill” is a scenic encounter, that in combination with video art, through a fictional Zoom session, to create a playful space that provokes the imagination of different scenarios within our body. It explores different ideas about the interaction of medicine and our cells, using metaphors and parallel images of the outside world and inside our body. How do we negotiate with our cells? What happens when the medicine ingested is art that allows us to re-imagine our interior? It proposes a game where disease and treatment are merely a provocation to the playful imagination. The patient ingests a pill that triggers a series of visualities, starting with the journey inside the body metaphorically. At the end of this journey the patient has a new relationship and vision of her body and the viewer has enjoyed and reflected on this relationship: about what medicine tells us the body is facing and what we imagine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sOmstOQ8eo&t=218s
https://culturaunam.mx/elaleph2021/eventos-2021/038-zoom-ficcionado-through-the-looking-pill-wats/
https://tresartcollective.com/PROYECTOS-PROJECTS/2021-Through-the-Looking-Pill
http://culturaunam.mx/elaleph/ejes/ciencia-literatura-y-el-arte-de-la-medicina/
2019. Collaborative Workshop. Mexico City, MX. “Sensory umwelts - Insect
senses and non-human subjectivity.” Through WATS (Where Art Technology & Science meet).
*Click on text above for Workshop outline
Bell Memorial Union Art Gallery, California State University, Chico – Solo Exhibition. 2012.
“Reflections of an Artist; understanding the body in motion.”
Leadership
Unconscious Bias Workshop - University of Hawaii at Manoa - 2020
Organized meeting, presentation and led discussions on unconscious bias in the workplace.
Symposium Organizer: Entomological Society of America - Pacific Branch - April 2019
Title: Innovative Technologies and Methods in Integrated Pest Management
Description: The concept of Integrated Pest Management is integral to sustainable agricultural practices, yet what proportion of programs employ a holistic approach? How often is the concept properly applied? With more modern techniques than ever for sustainable pest management, understanding how they will fit into the IPM framework is a necessity.
*Proposed, planned, organized, moderated for 8 speakers at symposium.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
08:00 AM - 11:05 AM
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Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa , San Diego
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- Belmont
Organizer
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University of California Davis
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Co-Founder & President: Sisters in Science - Women in Science Educational and Support Group
University of California, Davis. - 2015-2019
Description: Co-founded (with Mimi Patilla) a women’s in science support group, with bi-weekly meetings and monthly events including:
• Organized guest speaker to come talk about resources for students on UC Davis campus.
• This group consisted of people who identified as female or non-gender specific identified
and of students of all ages, and levels in their degree progress.
• Ombudsman, UC Davis Faculty, and UC Davis Women’s center representatives.
Founder and President. California State University Chico Rowing Team. 2011-2013
Description: This involved recruiting a rowing coach for team, developed fliers throughout CSU Chico campus and organized “interested in crew” days at CSU Chico WREC center, working on ergometers (indoor rowing devices). Held “informational rowing nights” where interested students learned more about the sport
of rowing from Coach Colleen and me. Recruited borrowed boats from other CREW teams and the Forebay Aquatic Center in Oroville, CA. Organized carpools for riding from campus to boat house. Designed logo. Scheduled regattas and logistics, trailing boats etc.
Committees
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Faculty Representative: 2023-Present. Waiakea Renovation Project.
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Board Member. 2021-Present. Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Council
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Board Member. 2020-2021 & 2023-Present. Entomological Society of America (ESA) -Pacific Branch Meeting Planning Committee.
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Presenter/Consultant. May 2021 – Aug.2021. UH Gen Ed Curriculum Design Team. UH Gen Ed Summer Institute: Interdisciplinary.
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Board Advisor. 2021- Present. Orchid Growers of Hawaii.
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Board Member. 2020-Present. COVID Rapid Response Team.
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Founder, Advisor. 2020-Present. CTAHR Mindfulness Moments.
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Board Advisor. 2020-Present. Hawaii Floriculture and Nursery Association (HFNA).
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Collaborator. 2019-Present. Where Art Science & Technology Meet (WATs) an International collaboration with MIT, RMIT, Univ. of San Francisco, TRES Art Collective, and Clubes de Ciencia.
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Secretary. 2016-2017. Entomological Graduate Student Association, University of California, Davis.
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Graduate Student Admissions Committee Member.2016. University of California, Davis.
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Representative, Graduate Student Association. 2015-2016. University of California, Davis.