Fellowship Alumni — The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship

FELLOWSHIP ALUMNI

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2023-2024 FELLOWS

Elise Ahrens / NY

Nicole Amyx / SF

M Auday / LA

Dana Y. Bingham / AR

Sara Cabrera-Aragon / MI

Berenice Chavez / LA

Celine Clarke / NY

Raven Dahlin / NY

Jeanna French / AZ

Sarah Garrahan / LA

Tanya Glebova / NY

Katyann Gonzalez / NY

Yijun He / NY

Chris Herde / NY

Sarah Jacobson / NY

Laura Karpas / NY

Ruolin Luyo / LA

Ilana Rappaport / SF

Samuel Rong / IL

María Luisa Santos / SF

Ryan Shake / SF

Bipasha Shom / LA

Catherine Trasborg / NY

Oscar Vazquez / LA

Nina Vizcarrondo / TX

Meranda Yslas / NY

Benjamin Zweig / MO

2022-2023 FELLOWS

Kylee Acevedo / SF

Jason Alarcón / SF

Cheryl Beadling / NY

Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros / SF

Gustavo Curi / NY

Katrina De Vera / TX

Tiffany Dixon / LA

Dahlia Fischbein / NY

Victoria Guillem / NY

Beth Kearsley / UT

Christina Kelly / NY

Drigan Lee / LA

Tessa Malsam / CO

Simone Maurice / ON

Michaelle McGaraghan / SF

M’Daya Meliani / LA

Ashley Moradipour / NY

Cierra Pacheco / NY

Pegah Pasalar / NY

Brian Redondo / NY

Jarrid Reagle / AL, GA & NY

Joy E. Reed / NY

Elika Rezaee / LA

Susannah Smith / SF

Ally Southwood-Smith / NY

Jon Stray / NY

Ha Vo / NY

Mimi Wilcox / NY

Grace Zahrah / LA

Luz Marina Zamora / NY

2020-2021 FELLOWS

Anisha Acharya / LA

Andrès Arias / NY

Maria Badia / NY

Elizabeth Barrett / LA

Gabrielle Berbey / NY

Steph Ching / NY

Sydney Friedman / NY

Alma Herrera-Pazmiño / NY

Christina Sun Kim / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow

Samantha Kahrar / NY

Francesca Kustra / NY

Reena Mangubat / NY

Rommel Mendoza / LA

Sunita Prasad / NY

Jean Rheem / LA

Ruella Rouf / NY

Jota Sosnowski / NY

Dominique Ulloa / LA

Andreina Velazquez / NY

Sally Volkmann / NY

Dora Wu / LA

2019-2020 FELLOWS

Yuki Aizawa / LA

Natalie Ancona / LA

Stephanie Andreou / NY

David Aristizabal / LA

Beyza Boyacioglu / NY

Victoria Chalk / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow

Jasmine Cannon / NY

Jaki Covington / LA

Janah Cox / NY

Sebastian Diaz / NY

Mohamed Elsafty / NY

Sediqua Francis / NY

Loulwa Khoury / NY

Stephanie Khoury / NY

Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi / NY

Chris McNabb / NY

Hypatia Porter / NY

Christelle Powell / NY

Charnelle Quallis / NY

Carla Roda / LA

Salman Syed / LA

Maria Gabriela Torres / NY

Inés Vogelfang / NY

Anne Yao / NY

2018-2019 FELLOWS

Claire Ave'Lallemant / NY

Faisal Azam / NY

Samali Bikangaga / NY

Mitra Bonshahi / NY

Kristin Bye / NY & OR / Emerging Editor Fellow

Bryan Chang / NY

Winnie Cheung / NY

Hannah Choe / NY

Andrea Cruz / NY & LA

Diana Diroy / NY

Shilpi Gupta / NY

Steven J. Golliday / NY

Princess A. Hairston / NY

Mary Kerr / NY

Ephraim Kirkwood / NY

Ellen Knechel / NY

Blair Seab McClendon / NY

Grace Mendenhall / NY

Margaret Metzger / NY

Luna X Moya / NY

Luis Ortiz-Guillen / NY

Samin Pogoff / NY

Daniela I. Quiroz / NY

Pilar Rico / NY

Carlos Rojas / NY

Ligaiya Romero / NY

Jessica Lee Salas / NY

Rosie Walunas / NY

Eugene Yi / NY

Anita Hei-Man Yu / NY

Fellows 2011 - 2017

Leigh Johnson / NY / Emerging Editor Fellow 2017

Eileen Meyer / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow 2016

Anna Gustavi / NY / Emerging Edtior Fellow 2015

Colin Nusbaum / NY / Emerging Editor Fellow 2014

Jim Hession / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow 2013

Lindsay Utz / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow 2012

Erin Casper / NY / Emerging Editor Fellow 2011