Ethnocine

Laura Menchaca ruiz

is an educator and filmmaker from the borderlands of the U.S. Southwest. Laura is an Assistant Professor of Digital Communications, Media and the Arts (DCMA) at Al-Quds Bard College; Co-Founder and Head of Video Production at Element Media; Co-Founder of the feminist filmmaking collective, Ethnocine; and a Producer for the Bad Feminists Making Films podcast. Her creative work celebrates the marks that people make on the world, highlighting the extraordinary in the ordinary, and her scholarship explores the reach for autonomy amidst marginalizing constraint. Her approach to all her work treasures the local, the small-scale, the personal, the eccentric, the intimate.