About me
Dr. Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz (she/they) is a Lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and co-founder of the Memory Lab at the Urbana Makerspace. Her research centers on U.S. Latina moving image production, anticolonial feminist theory, community archiving, and home movie digital preservation. Their writing has been published in journals including the International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion, the Journal of Feminist Media Histories, and Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities.
