Ana María Jessie Serna
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Ana María Jessie Serna is a filmmaker, visual anthropologist, and historian, as well as a photojournalist specializing in governance and human rights.
Jessie Serna is also a professor in the master’s program in cultural management at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia.
Her work focuses on projects that combine research, historical memory, and art to defend Black, Indigenous, and queer people, and to promote racial and climate justice.
She's currently producing The Coral Man, a documentary on traditional fishing and coral conservation.
Jessie Serna holds a master's degree in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester, and is the director of the Da Pitti Tiam Afro-Indigenous Film Festival. She is also the founder of Trasatlánticas, a creative studio led by Black women in the San Andrés archipelago.
