Maria Nicola Chavez-Courtright

Nicola is a Div II student who studies how migration mitigates intergenerational trauma brought on by state violence in Latin America. She has a job in the Toddler Room at the Children's Center, which she loves and gets very exhausted by. She also signs for In Solidarity With Immigrants (ISWI). This semester she's working on a documentary that she shot in June about Salvadorans returning or visiting El Salvador for the first time. On top of all that, Nicola's pretty busy with her fabulous Learning Project, as well as with ISWI-related projects

You can find a few of her videos on Youtube and Vimeo (the cooler ones are on Vimeo, though).

Spring 2011
Critical Ethnography: Got Reflexivity?

Making History, or Producing Non-Fiction Film and Video

Documentary Drama

Learning Activity Project: Developing Practical Skills and Methods in the Care and Rehabilitation of Abused and Neglected Domestic Animals

Fall 2010
Latin American Social Movements

Central America: Reaction, Reform at Mt Holyoke

Video I

Critical Race Theory

Spring 2010
ACTivism: Theatre As Social Change

The Task of the Translator

Advanced Documentary Production at Mt Holyoke

Fall 2009
Zapatismo and Latin America's Third Left

Writing Fiction: Color Blind or Color Sighted?

Introduction to Analog/Digital Media Arts

Human Biological Variation

Spring 2009
Animal Language

Theatre of the Eye

Black Radicalism in the U.S. and Beyond, 1960's and 1970s

Striking Against the Empire: Puerto Rican Colonialism, Rebellion, and Diaspora