Christine L. Mendoza

Christine L. Mendoza, founder of Christine L Mendoza INC, utilizes her personal journey to empower her own historically oppressed communities through program design, funding, and leadership. Overcoming the challenges of childhood poverty, she became the first in her family to graduate high school and college. As a teenage filmmaker in NYC, Christine achieved accolades, authored articles, and taught at renowned institutions like MoMA, The Jewish Museum, NYU, and Columbia University. She has also employed film as an educational tool globally in Finland, India, Iran, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Bolivia, and Peru. Christine holds a Masters Degree from Queens University and a BA in Media Studies from Hunter College. With board positions at CIFEJ and The Educational Video Center, she served as the Director of Education for Film at Lincoln Center and as the inaugural Executive Director of Urbanworld, the world's largest multicultural oscar-qualifying film festival. She resides in her native city, Manhattan, with her precious toddler, Galileo.