Michelle Y. Hurtubise (she/her) has advocated for narrative sovereignty for diverse storytellers throughout her PhD journey in Visual Anthropology at Temple University and brings this passion to Color Congress as the Membership and Events Manager. She co-founded and developed Kin Theory, an Indigenous media makers database, and helped coordinate the 4th World Media Lab. With a 2022-2023 Fulbright Fellowship, she collaborated with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Vtape in Toronto. Originally from San Francisco, Michelle (Cantonese American, Irish and French descent) did human rights and media work in Rio de Janeiro as part of her MA at New York University, received an MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, worked with the Center for Artistic Activism, and with the Center for Media, Culture and History.

Faculty Advisor: Damien Stankiewicz

Selected Publications

• Hurtubise, Michelle Y. 2023. “4th World Indigenous Media Lab: Trans-Indigenous awakenings at the 2021 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum.” Visual Anthropology Review, no. 39.1 (Spring 2023).https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12297
• Hurtubise, Michelle Y. 2022. “Indigenizing towards co-liberation joy through BIPOC film festivals and sovereign media making.” The Projector: A Journal of Film, Media, and Culture, “Community Media-Making Practices and Aesthetics: Potentials and Pitfalls” 22, no. 2 (Summer). https://www.theprojectorjournal.com/co-liberation-joy
• Hurtubise, Michelle Y. 2021. “Celebrating Indigenous National Cinemas and Narrative Sovereignty through the Creation of Kin Theory, an Indigenous Media Makers Database.” New Horizons in English Studies, no. 6: 160-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh.2021.6.160-174
• Hurtubise, Michelle Y. 2021. “SGaawaayK‘uuna: Edge of the Knife, Indigenous Language Revitalization.” Proa: Revista de Anthropologia e Arte, “Cinema indígena: passado, presente e futuro” (Journal of Anthropology and Art, “Indigenous Cinema: present, past and future”) 1, no. 11 (July 22): 385-390. https://doi.org/10.20396/proa.v11i1.16659