Martha Diaz
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Martha Diaz is a Colombian-American community organizer, media producer, archivist, curator, and social entrepreneur.
Career
Diaz started her career as an intern working for Ted Demme on the cable show Yo! MTV Raps.[1] Diaz has associate produced several documentaries including, Black August directed by Dream Hampton, Where My Ladies At? directed by Leba Haber-Rubinoff, and Nas: Time Is Illmatic directed by One9.[2][3] In 2002, Diaz founded the H2O International Film Festival with a dozen filmmakers, entertainment industry professionals, activist, and artists.[4][5]
Diaz has been a guest curator at NJ Performing Arts Center,[6] the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library,[7][8] Museum of the Moving Image,[9] and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.[10]
Diaz was a part-time professor at New York University's Gallatin School from 2011 to 2015.[11][12]
Diaz in collaboration with Marcella Runell Hall created the "Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume 1", a comprehensive collection of lesson plans and resources that educators can use to integrate hip-hop into their classroom curriculum. The book concept was inspired by Diaz, who founded and curated the Hip-Hop Education Summit with Patricia Wang from 2003 to 2005. In 2010, Diaz formed the Hip-Hop Education Center (H2ED) to formalize and unify the field of hip-hop based education.[13][14][15]
Diaz conducted the first national study on hip-hop education programs and initiatives in partnership with Pedro Noguera and Edward Fergus.[16] Diaz was a fellow at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation[17] at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution). In 2008, Diaz was the recipient of the Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship.[18] In September 2014, Diaz was selected as a Community Scholar at Columbia University.[19]
Diaz served as chair and executive director of the Hip-Hop Association, a community building 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Hip-Hop Association received a Union Square Arts Award, which recognizes the central leadership role played by arts and culture in providing educational opportunities for young people, building collaborations and promoting social change.[20]
In 2017, Diaz was selected as a Nasir Jones Fellow at The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute in The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.[21] She was also invited to be a 2020 Civic Media Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of California.[22]
References
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- ↑ Feministing: Lady of Hip-Hop
- ↑ Tribeca Film Festival 2014
- ↑ ‘Nas: Time is Illmatic’ Team Talks Expanding 20-Year Hip-Hop Legacy - Black Enterprise October 6, 2014
- ↑ N.Y. Film Festival Highlights Hip-Hop - Billboard Nov 16, 2002
- ↑ Seven Who Invent a Better Future - 2010
- ↑ Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival
- ↑ Higher Learning: Using Hip-Hop Education to Transform Schools and Communities
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- ↑ Hip Hop Education Center CEO Martha Diaz & The Academy’s Patrick Harrison Talk New Film - Ebony Mag May 24, 2017
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- ↑ Taking back the mic: Hip-hop as a STEM learning tool - Washington Post December 14, 2012
- ↑ 3 life skills students can learn from hip-hop and technology - Amplify
- ↑ Hip-Hop Education Reaches Youth in Low-Income - Good News Planet TV October 31, 2011
- ↑ Teachers Use Hip Hop to Engage Students By Jason Koebler
- ↑ Hip-Hop, the Collaborations Don't Stop
- ↑ http://www.nyu.edu/reynolds/grad/alumni_html/new08_html/diaz.html Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowship
- ↑ http://gca.columbia.edu/columbia-community-scholars-program-cohort-ii Columbia University Community Scholar
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