Graduate Alumni Profiles
MFA
Maru Buendia
She graduated in December 2008 and has many award winning films: Last Interview (2005), 100 Meals (2006), La Pared (2007), and Entre Lineas (2008).
Suzanne Mason
She graduated in 1993, and has produced the award winning film "Writ Writer," a feature-length documentary that was broadcast on the Emmy award-winning PBS series Independent Lens.
Ya'Ke Smith
Ya'Ke graduated in 2006. He is currently CEO/Founder, Exodus Filmworks and Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington.
PhD
Walter Metz
Walter graduated in 1996. His career since then has included lecturing at UT Austin, being a professor at Montana State University-Bozeman, and currently Chair and Professor at Southern Illinois University.
Yeidy Rivero
Yeidy graduated in 2000. She has since been professor at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio and Indiana University, Bloomington.
Sharon Ross
She graduated in 2002, and she is currently the Associate Chair in the Television Department at Columbia College Chicago.
Ying Zhu
Ying graduated in 2000. She is now Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York.
