Recent graduate with research, technical, and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented and able to learn new concepts quickly.
English, Spanish
Zapoteco Linguistic Project — Class Project, Our project was working with a community of Zapoteco native speakers from San Francisco Yatee to help record and preserve the dialect. Our class was in charge of making alphabet cards and videos of the Yatee Zapotec dialect.
Compartiendo Identidades. Madres, Hijas, y Quinceñeras — Ethnographic Film Methods Class Project, Spring Semester 2024. 8 minutes
Ethnographic film created, filmed, produced by Samantha Gonzalez. Screened at the Cal State LA Anthropology Film Festival May 8th, 2024. The film combines interviews of mothers and daughters (including the producer) sharing their experiences of their Quinceñeras, with cultural context, to explore intergenerational Latina mother-daughter relationships, family tradition, girls' rite de passage into adulthood, and culture in Los Angeles.