BOARD CHAIR
MARIA AGUI CARTER
maria@iguanafilms.com
María Agui Carter is an award-winning filmmaker, scholar, and president of Iguana Films, a film and new media company focusing on culture, politics, and history. A graduate of Harvard University, and former staff producer for WGBH Boston, Maria was the only woman director featured in Discovery in Espanol’s Hispanic Heritage Month for her dramatic short, Cleats. Over a dozen of her documentaries have broadcast on public television. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Tulane and Brandeis, as well as the recipient of Warren, Rockefeller, and CPB fellowships. Her latest production, No Job For a Woman, on women war journalists, opened at the UN Women's Film Festival. Her new film Rebel, a feature dramatized documentary based on the memoir of a Cuban woman soldier of the American Civil War is slated for PBS. She has been a member of the Writer's Guild of America since 2000.


January 4, 2012
From NALIP Board Chair María Agui Carter

I am deeply proud to be part of the NALIP tradition of service to our community. It is a privilege to work with my talented and committed colleagues on the board of directors in guiding NALIP to a new decade of stability and growth and to support our staff in the critical work they do.

As we leave the big spending (and big borrowing) 2000’s and enter the fiscally responsible 2010’s, we must work leaner and smarter; we must take advantage of a changing media landscape; and we must insure that our programming and advocacy utilize our resources and respond to our needs in the best possible ways.

The strength of any organization comes from questioning and challenging ourselves to make sure we are monitoring the pulse of our community’s needs and evaluating the efficacy and success of our work. It is in this spirit that we have spent a year exploring what NALIP is today, where we’ve been successful, where we can imagine doing better, and how we might respond to the seismic shifts in the conception, creation, and distribution of media today.

We are working for inclusion of new voices, strategies, and partners as we hammer out a Strategic Planning initiative that will take effect in the second half of 2012. We have been reaching out to many of you already, but I welcome you to check in with me if you have additional thoughts to share about what would work for you. NALIP is all of us.

In this new year, NALIP has been reorganized under new leadership, and our operations are undergoing strategic tweaks to help us work smarter and better. We want to harness the power of our collective strength and imagination and insure that NALIP continues to make a quantifiable difference in diversifying the dreams and realities of this nation through our Latino media voices. This is truly key to our community’s participation in American democracy. I stand by NALIP’s vision: Latinos everywhere you see media.

Warm Regards,
María Agui Carter
Chairman, NALIP

 
 



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