Mona Jimenez

Mona Jiménez began using video in 1974 for creative and social justice projects, and is a longtime organizer, preservationist, and educator dedicated to participatory and cross-disciplinary models for the archiving and preservation ofindependent media and media art. She initiated models for Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) and Community Archiving Workshops. From 2003–2017 she taught at NYU MIAP, leading curriculum development for video preservation, collection management, and media art conservation. She currently teaches media conservation at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.