MAYA CHINCHILLA is an award winning media maker, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” She hosts digital programs such as "Live and Queer," a talk show produced by the QCC, supported by Fresh Meat Productions and the NEA Cal Humanities fund. She is also a recipient of the 2023 Mellon Foundation grant for US Latino Digital Humanities for her mapping of Central American Solidarity oral histories. She teaches creative writing, English, Chicana/Latina/o/x Studies and Queer studies as a lecturer at Bay Area universities and works independently as a facilitator, creativity coach and guest speaker.