Festival Fellows

Festival Fellows Program
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Fellows program brings outstanding graduate students of color from all disciplines to campus during the festival to immerse them in screenings, lectures, workshops, master classes, concerts, and events within an engaging, interdisciplinary, think-tank environment.

The festival fellows cohort engages with Ithaca College faculty and students from across campus, as well as with festival guests, to explore linkages between sustainable development, different media platforms, globalization, race, ethnicity, gender, and music in order to stimulate new research and thinking in the areas of sustainability, interdisciplinary research, and international issues.

Selection to the festival fellows program is highly competitive; fellows are recruited from graduate programs across the United States in consultation with departments on the Ithaca College campus. The festival fellows program is an initiative of the Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance.

2008 FLEFF Fellows

• Carlo G. Arreglo, English, University of California Berkeley
• Belinda Chiu, International Education Development, Columbia University
• Louis Esparza, Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook
• Sylvette La Touche-Howard, Community and Public Health, University of Maryland
• Valerie Lundy-Wagner, Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania
• Salma Monani, Writing Studies, University of Minnesota
• Carmen Rojas, City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley
• Gabriel Sandoval, Biology, Pennsylvania State University
• Maria Velazquez, American Studies, University of Maryland
• Daniel Wright, Counseling Psychology, Texas A and M University