Nelesi Rodriguez

Nelesi Rodriguez is a Venezuelan-born media educator, researcher, and practitioner. Before joining this program, she came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship and got an MA in Media Studies from The New School. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on understandings of the body as a medium for knowledge and their potential impact on pedagogical practices. Rodriguez is also interested in public scholarship, informal learning, and how creative practices are used/adapted as research and teaching methodologies.