2026, BS Conservation & Resource Studies + BA Geography, UC Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024-Present, Documentary Arts Producer, Independent
First beginning with training in courses such as Visual Geographies & Geographic Film Production at UC Berkeley, I have independently produced a short film, as well as other field projects across geographies (including California & México) that integrate sound and photography. I have also worked as a collaborator on various documentary film sets, primarily as a sound recordist.2024-2025, Art & Storytelling Associate, Student Environmental Resource Center
Expanded organizational art programming by facilitating an eco-creatives collective (The Leaflet), recruiting and collaborating with 10 student artists + writers for 1 year. Served as managing editor for an annual publication and reviewed rolling pitches for original multimedia projects, creative events, and web content.2022-2024, Environmental Justice Associate, Student Environmental Resource Center
Led efforts to steward public educational resources and discussion spaces centered on EJ for hundreds of UC Berkeley students. Included SERC’s EJ Toolkit, EJ Trainings, and SERC Book Club.2023, Collaborative Research Fellow, UC Berkeley American Cultures Center
Worked with Dr. Seth Lunine (Dept. of Geography, UC Berkeley) and Bay Area non-profit partner Restorative Media to co-craft a research project exploring racial representations in popular media + film.PUBLICATIONS + PRESS
2025, por vida // for life: an embodied geographic approach to environmental (in)justice through photo & sound by Jacqueline Canchola-Martinez
2025, FISSURES, The Leaflet Collective, co-edited by Jacqueline Canchola-Martinez
2025, Geography and conservation studies student awarded funding for senior honors project, UC Berkeley Social Sciences by Jessica Park
2024, Art for Earth’s Sake: Decolonial Artivism and the Work of Jaider Esbell, 2018-2021, Perennial Undergraduate Environmental Journal by Jacqueline Canchola-Martinez
2024, OE Journal Volume I: all of us: Radically Imagining Past, Present, and Environmental Futures, OurEnvironmentalism (OE) Journal, edited by Jacqueline Canchola-Martinez & Alexandra Jade Garcia
GRANTS + AWARDS
2026, James J. Parsons Scholarship for Field Research in Geography, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley
2025, Eisner Prize in Film & Video Honorable Mention, UC Berkeley
2025, Gilman Scholarship for International Study
2025, LIFT Arts Development Grant, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley
2025, Independent Research Travel Grant, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
2024, Award for Leadership Excellence in Environmental Justice, Division of Student Affairs, UC Berkeley
SPEAKING & PRESENTATIONS
2026, Scales of Resistance: Latinx Geographies & Environmental Justice, American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
2025, Environment, Place, and the Photograph, UC Berkeley Conservation & Resource Studies Senior Seminar, Berkeley, CA.
FILM SCREENINGS
2026, Film Geographies Specialty Group Shorts, American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, SF, CA.
2025, UC Berkeley Eisner Prize, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.