Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz

I’m a transdisciplinary scholar, educator, curator, and memory worker specializing in Latina moving image production, community and personal archiving, and relational feminist practices. I’m currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Rooted in relational feminism, my work is guided by the understanding that memory, resistance, and identity are carried intergenerationally through storytelling, everyday practice, and reciprocal care.

Committed to building community through archives, film, and the arts, I center relational, culturally grounded approaches that honor lived experience and collective knowledge. From Do-It-Yourself/Together (DIY/T) digital archiving initiatives to film curation and participatory memory workshops, my practice reimagines preservation as an ongoing, creative, affective, and collaborative process—one that supports the recovery and activation of historically marginalized stories on the terms of the communities to whom they belong.