Freya Schiwy is Professor of Media Cultural Studies and a Cooperating Faculty member in the Departments of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of Indianizing Film. Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology (Rutgers UP, 2009) and of The Open Invitation. Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect. (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Together with Bryt Wammack Weber she coedited, Adjusting the Lens. Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2017).