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Committed to bridging the digital divide through media literacy and the empowerment of others to utilize multimedia technologies to explore and share personal stories and ideas, to move beyond merely seeing differences and towards acknowledging commonalities, through a holistic, experiential, each-one-teach-one, global awareness approach towards education, in the pursuit of transcending both geographical and cultural boundaries so we can stop thinking of ourselves as competitors and start becoming collaborators in the world we share.

Cameras (manual & digital SLR, miniDV/HD); Sound Recording / Mixing, Music Production & Sound Design (Reason, ReCycle & Protools); Video Editing / Live Mixing (Final Cut Pro, DVDstudioPro, LiveType, MotionDive, Grid, GrandVJ); Web2.0 & SocialMedia (HTML, CSS, XML, Flash, WordPress template tweaking, Facebook & Twitter marketing) / Graphic Design / Photo Retouching (Adobe CS4) – teaching all of the above.

MacBookPro (OSX laptop), M-Audio O2 (midi-keyboard), Zoom H4n 4track Digital Audio Recorder, Sennheiser ew100 Wireless Lavaliere Microphone, Nikon 35mm manual still camera w/ 24mm lens, NikonCoolPix990 (digital photo camera), Panasonic 3CCD 700x/PV-GS70D (miniDV camera), Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (digital photo/HDvideo camera), Kodak Zi8 (digital photo/HDvideo camera ), Kodak EasyShare PrinterDock Plus (4×6 photo pinter)

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Graduate level courses in Documentary Photography & New Media Technology in Education

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. BA Studio Art (Photography concentration) and Philosophy

Chicago Arts Program (including internship with documentary photographer, Michelle Litvin)

Proposal Budgeting Workshop, Foundation Center (New York City)

New Museum Development Workshop for Teachers (New York City)

Web 2.0 Activist Case Studies, Not An Alternative (New York City)

Youth Views Teacher Training, Media Rights Watch, Paley Center for Media & POV (New York City)

New Museum Development Workshop for Teachers (New York City)

• Coordinated Multimedia Education Program Development in a community based computer lab, maintaining facility of 10 iMAC G4s, 12 Dell PCs, printers, scanners, photography/digitalAV production equipment.

• Developed & Implemented Curriculum for elementary school aged youth (After School Program), teens (RECYouth multimedia program), adults & seniors learning computer basics, media literacy, multimedia skills, including: digital photography, stop motion & Flash animation, electronic music & video production, web & graphic design.

• Established and maintained partnerships with alternative education programs at City As School High School, Henry Street Settlement, New Museum, Rhizome and the MIX NYC “A Different Take” LGBT Video Production Program.

• Developed student assessment rubric tracking system, currently used by other RECYouth staff.

• Trained staff individually & through presenting at staff development workshops; managed interns.

• Authored DVDs, developed & maintained websites, created online galleries of students’ productions.

• Co-produced multimedia showcase events, screenings and exhibits.

• Led Elementary and Middle School Students (in our After-School Program) to create a comic book about recycling, which got the attention of NYC Parks & Recreation’s upper management, resulting in their providing our park with recycling bins and scheduling weekly pick-ups for the recyclables we collected around our park.

• Facilitated the production of student multimedia projects: over 35 videos, over 40 music tracks, several photography / graphic art portfolios and websites.

New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, various sites (NYC)
RECYouth (Reel Education & Communication for Youth) Coordinator & Multimedia Teacher

• Taught Elementary to High School aged students: digital photography, stop motion animation, electronic music and video production.

• Trained the Computer Resource Center (CRC) coordinator to implement the RECYouth multimedia curriculum upon my departure, ie. promotion.

• Reorganized harddrives to create archive of all multimedia content produced since 2003.

• Developed archival file naming conventions now used throughout all RECYouth Centers.

• Developed multimedia marketing materials, including copy writing, website & brochure design.

• Taught a group of student Interns (Summer Youth Employment Program) >digital photography (manual settings for focus, aperture, shutter speed, and depth of field) with Sony a100 SLR cameras & Photoshop.

• Facilitated production of print and web portfolios http://relativelylocal.com/sunsetGirlsPhoto/

• Curated exhibition at Director’s Guild Theater during the 4^th RECYouth Multimedia Festival.

• Developed Flash mp3 player and slideshows to showcase students’ work online

• Taught basic HTML & CSS to Summer Youth Employment Program interns, enabling them to create their own profile pages.

• Developed multimedia curriculum & equipment base for startup youth media production house.

• Taught camera skills, video editing, graphic / web design to youth aged 13-18.

• Projects included: producing documentary shorts about Red Hook, Brooklyn, specifically how the neighborhood is affected by waterfront redevelopment, gentrification and police brutality within the NYC Housing Projects.

• Authored DVDs and developed website http://www.hookproductions.org to showcase student work.

•Gave outreach presentations at neighborhood schools and community organizations.

• Coproduce fundraisers, multimedia performance events, & documentary films.

• Contribute to web-development, grant writing, & producing marketing materials for projects.

• Produce, curate and host video screenings.

• Developed & presented workshops and tutored small groups of students in Flash Animation & Web Design.

As a three channel video / photography installation using archival (super8 and VHS) footage from their childhood and still photographs as adults, it explores the fraternal gender identities of an set identical twins (the artist and her sister).

A multi channel video installation that inspires the viewer to negotiate the curiosity to invade ones’ personal space and privacy. Resembling a peepshow, most of the videos are viewed through holes in a corrugated metal fence, similar to that through which the footage was shot (rare scenes of naked naga babas’ preparatory shaving for initiation rites during the Kumbh Mela in Ujjain, India). However above the fence is a projection loop of a young naga baba jumping up and down trying to peer over the fence at the viewer on the other side. Having its premier at a NYC Gala event provided quite the juxtaposition of opposing lifestyles attempting to get a glimpse at one another.

Identical? Fraternal? , Queer Films Under the Stars, Outpost Lounge, NYC; video screening

Chakra Rock record release party, House of Yes, Brooklyn, live video theatrics w/ aerial performances

Ascetics with Cameras, LuluLemon, NYC; photography slideshow (solo)

Identical? Fraternal? , MIX Experimental Queer Film Festival, Seaport, NYC; video installation

Sadhvi Shakti II, Om Factory, NYC; photography slideshow (solo)

India 2001-2004, Atlantic Avenue Art Walk, Omala, Brooklyn; photography (solo)

Ascetics, MyMoon, Brooklyn, NY; photography & video installations (solo)

Sanskar, at INTUITION IV, The Frying Pan, NYC; video installation

Kya Dekh Rahe Ho? [aka Sanskar Peepshow], at INTUITION III, MyMoon, Brooklyn, NY; video installation

Permanent Installation, The Lucky Cat, Brooklyn, NY; 8×6’ photo collage

Utopia, Deceived: A Project on Planned Communities, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago, IL; video installation

The Community Church of New York, NYC; w/ Wadada Leo Smith on Trumpet Bezanson Recital Hall, UMASS Amherst, MA; live video theatrics w/ Graham Haynes’ Electric Church

Take Me to the River, IAAC 4th Annual Indian Diaspora Film Festival, NYC; video screening

Sadhvi Shakti I; Healthy Yoga / COSM, NYC; slide show & video screening (solo)

INTUITION II, Knitting Factory, Main Space, NYC; live video theatrics & photography

Take Me to the River, Spiritual Film Festival, Goa, India; feature film & live video theatrics

Virtual Ritual II, My Kind of Place, New Delhi, India; live video theatrics

Sangam, The Lucky Cat, Brooklyn, NY; photography (solo)

Naga, Knitting Factory, Front Bar Gallery, NYC; photography (solo)

Brooklyn Underground Film Festival DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY; video installation & live video theatrics

International House of Trances (IHOT), Angel Orenz Foundation, NYC; live video theatrics

INTUITION I, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; live video installation

Sangam, Knitting Factory, Tap Bar Gallery, NYC; photography (solo)

Sangam, Halcyon, Brooklyn; photography (solo)

Sangam, Berkshire Mountain Music Festival, Great Barrington, MA; photography, video theatrics

Sangam, Unicorn Theater, Stockbridge, MA; photography, live video theatrics for multimedia performance

Sangam, Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA; live video for multimedia performance

Kya Dekh Rahe Ho?, Rain Lounge, Brooklyn NY; photography, video installation

Semester End Exhibition, Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, photography

BA Thesis Exhibition, Durand Art Institute, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest, IL; multimedia installation

Chicago Arts Program Semester End Exhibit, CAP Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL; multimedia installation

with artists including: Akim Funk Buddha, Al.One, Balkan Beat Box, Brazilian Girls, Bullfrog and Kid Koala, Cheb I Sabbah, Derek Beres, DJ Handler (afronomics / modular moods), DJ Logic, DJ Ish – dbase and the Parvati Music Project (New Delhi, India), DJ Noa D, DJ Piki Chappell, DJ Rekha (Basement Bhangra / Bollywood Disco), DJ Shotnez (Rubulad / Balkan Beat Box / ex Gogol Bordello), DK aka Bollygirl (avaaz), Elsewhere (sound advice / modular moods), GlobeSonic, Graham Haynes’ Electric Church, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Karsh Kale, Lettuce, Marco and Joe DUO, Parashakti’s dance of liberation, Root Valdez, Sound Tribe Sector 9, The Motet, The Slip, Wadada Leo Smith, and Zakhm (MUTINY).

for parties including: AlfieBoy, Balagan Boogaloo, Body Temple, Burning Man (on the playa & various Decompression gatherings), Homo Rodeo, Snapshot, SUPERFEST and numerous Projectile Arts events including INTUITION

for NYC Fashion Week & designers including: Anand Jon, Babatunde and Fashion Monster

at NYC venues including: Angel Orenz Foundation, Canal Room, The Community Church of New York, Galapagos, Knitting Factory, Joes’ Pub, The Frying Pan (on the pier & in the boat), and held a long run bi-monthly residency at Bembe.

A documentary series of shorts exploring the internet activities of 6-14 year olds. Combining mirrored out monitor recordings with over-the-shoulder shots of the youth talking about what they are doing online, while they do it…. a study from the source, on how today’s youth use technology to communicate, play and learn. As a CRC / RECYouth Coordinator and New Media teacher, Nicole taught the youth in the Hamilton Fish Recreation Center After School Program to do the interviewing & shooting.
Status: in post production.

A documentary about manifesting the dream of a Spanish missionary priest and the struggles and triumphs of his Jesuit boarding school for Adivasi children in a remote tribal village in southern Gujarat, India. (Spanish, Gujarati, Hindi, English)
Status: in post production.

Co-Camera: Jihad for Democracy, Dir. Hima B.

Camera: a reinvention of Fluids – a Happening by Allan Kaprow, Westchester Park, Los Angeles, CA (organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Assistant Editor & Subtitles (Urdu, Hindi > English): Shame, Dir. Mohammed Naqvi, Mu-nan Pictures & Showtime Networks Inc.

Locations Manager: Jo Bole So Nihal, Dir. Rahul Rawail

Producer, Director, Curator: Mobile Cinema, Projectile Arts, 5 months traveling throughout India

Producer, Director, Camera, Web Developer: World Social Forum, Media Exchange Mission, Projectile Arts (Mumbai, India)

Camera, Location Sound Mixer: People’s World Water Forum, media coverage by Projectile Arts & 7^th Empire Media

Associate Producer, Location Sound Mixer, Still Photographer, Web Developer: Sem Terra, Dir. Kate Cunningham, Projectile Arts

Location Sound Mixer, Still Photographer: World Social Forum, media coverage by Projectile Arts

Camera: Change the Game, Dir. Shalini Kantayya, 7^th Empire Media & GTM…it means a lot

Camera: One Struggle, (music video) Dir. Shalini Kantayya, 7^th Empire Media

Associate Producer, Still Photographer, Translator/Subtitles (Hindi > English): Take Me to The River, Dir. Kenneth Eng, Projectile Arts

Clients include artists, writers, musicians, performers, production designers, costume designers, photographers, filmmakers, production companies, media education programs, non-profits and yogis.
List of projects and URLs available upon request