Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz

Scholar | Educator | Curator | Memory Worker

Projects

Latina Media Recovery Project

A digital humanities initiative that recovers and shares Latina media histories through an open-access database and research platform.
Latinas Make Movies Timeline

Mediaography & Bibliography

Home Movie Remezcla

A project that combines home videos from the Latinx/é diaspora with original testimonios, enabling participants to reclaim narrative control and actively shape the archival description process.

ImaginX en Movimiento (IXeM) Memory Collective

A collective focusing on developing anticolonial and relational research practices with artists, archivists, and cultural workers to enhance audiovisual preservation access to Latinx/é diasporas.

Memory Lab at the Urbana Makerspace

The Memory Lab is a free community space that provides tools, workshops, and resources to support communities in creatively preserving and sharing their histories using Do-It-Yourself/Together approaches.

Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonios Project

A prototype of an online archive of video-recorded testimonios and cultural resources that center the various experiences of women and femmes of Southern California’s Latin American and Caribbean diasporas, especially those of Black/Afro, Indigenous, Central American, Muslim, Asian, Queer,
and Transgender identities.