clara pérez medina

Clara is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. They are a geographic photographer, filmmaker, and researcher. I study the racial geographies of Oakland and Berkeley, California through

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In their dissertation work they put film/visual/Black geographies together to think about images as racial-spatial arguments about non/belonging and non/futurity for Black and Latine residents of Oakland and Berkeley, CA. They analyze journalistic images, create collaborative photographic archives, and create films with community partners - all through the technical lens of photographic and cinematic production.

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Clara's work is generously supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. They hold a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Sociology and Sustainability from Emory University.

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Together with their ethnographic training, technical skills in photography and filmmaking, and experience with community organizers, they pay attention to the ways we make memories in place and the community expertise and relations of care that remake the world.

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research areas: Film geographies, Visual Geographies, Black geographies, Latinx geographies

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