User:Escoriaza

I'm a filmmaker who works with digital media to foster engagement, and look at projects as a way of empowering people to have meaningful conversations and actions.

I currently work in Participant Media's social action department developing digital campaigns. In 2013 I finished co-writing and directing my second motion picture, Know How, a collaboration written and acted by foster care youth written about their lives. A few years earlier I founded White Roof Project, a non-profit focused on curbing climate change by painting black rooftops with energy saving reflective white paint.

As a content production manager at online discovery shopping destination AHAlife, I helped develop the site's visual design, content strategy, and user experience. I oversaw all email campaigns, daily features, photography, and products that went live on the site while simultaneously leading a 12-person team of full-time employees and freelancers.

Before that I directed and edited the award-winning documentary "Second Skin", and produced short documentaries for Vice Magazine. An activist at heart, I've been actively involved with non-profits Streetwise Partners and Manhattan Young Democrats throughout the last 5 years.

I've written articles for Reuters, Vice, The Wrap, and TakePart.