Carolina is a writer, multimedia artist, and organization builder. In both Brazil and the USA she has worked with media, museums, art organizations, and co-founded youth serving non-profits. Carolina played in rock bands with other women in punk and its variants, received an emerging Latina Filmmakers Award from Women in Film, and is a current mentee with AWP’s Mentorship Program.
Carolina (que era Carol no Brasil) é artista-escritora multicultural e diretora de ONG no noroeste Norte Americano. No Brasil e nos EUA, trabalhou profissionalmente com mídia, museus, organizações artísticas, e fundou organizações focada em jovens. Carolina tocou em bandas de rock com outras mulheres em punk e seus variantes, recebeu o prêmio emergente Latina Filmmakers da Women in Film e atualmente faz mentoria com a Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
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ARTIST TIMELINE
2023 Mentee with Writer to Writer AWP’s Mentorship Program
2020 & 2023 Artist Residency Hypatia-in-the-Woods
2019 Artist Residency Caldera Community
2019 Third Coast International Audio Festival & Conference Volunteer Cohort
2019 Artist Talk: ScaleHouse Voices
2018 Artist Residency Caldera
2018 Motherhood Magazine: Motherhood is not a gap on my resume (essay)
2017 Grant: Regional Arts and Culture Council Project (Interview for audio work I See You)
2016 Planet Drum: Worldviews (essay)
2014 Screenings by invitation: Indie Festival, Matilha Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil), Reciprocity, Blackwater Records (USA)
2013 Screening: Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo, Brazil)
2013 Screenings: Official Selections: Chicago International Movies and Film Festival, In-Edit Brasil, CBGB Festival, Curitiba International Film Festival, 7˚ Festival CineMúsica
2013 Award: Silver Documentary Feature at JamFest Film Fest
2005 Award: Women in Film Emerging Latina Filmmaker
2003 Screenings: Chicago Women's Film Festival, Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
2002 Award: Chicago Emmy Outstanding Achievement for Informational Programming
2001 Short Film featured in a Miranda July Chainletter Tape
2001 Segment producer for Public Television
2000 MFA Teaching Assistant Full Scholarship
90's Art Director for MTV Brasil + music + zines + films
NONPROFIT TIMELINE
2018 - ongoing: Executive Director for CultureSeed, a nonprofit in the Columbia Gorge, the largest national scenic area in the United States and a rural region with pronounced economic disparities. CultureSeed offers youth free and ongoing Outdoor Immersion and Mental Health.
2011- 2013 Communications Director for Mozambique based Permaculture Reference Center
2008 - 2010 Communications Director & Food Security Program Coordinator for Chicago based international relief NPO
2007 Signature Leadership Evanston Program Scholarship
2006 - 2007 Co-founder & Executive Director for Chicago based cultural center
2007 Volunteer co-founder farmer's market
2002 - 2005 Art Educator for Milwaukee nonprofit
90's - Art Educator for the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (BR)