Angel Velasco Shaw

Angel Velasco Shaw is a film/video maker, writer, cultural activist, curator, and educator. Videos screened nationally and internationally include “The Momentary Enemy,” “Blowback,” “Umbilical Cord,” “Asian Boys,” “Nailed,” and “Balikbayan/Return to Home.” She is co-editor along with Luis H. Francia of the anthology, “Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream: 1899-1999” (New York University Press, 2002).

Velasco Shaw is currently an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College teaching in the Asian American Studies Program. She was a core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University where she taught media, cultural, and community studies courses from 1995-2006. She has also taught at Columbia University, The New School For Social Research, and Pratt Institute.

In 2009, she completed producing a series of cross-cultural exchange project called “Trade Routes: Converging Cultures: Southeast Asia and Asian America.” It consisted of artists residencies, artists’ talks, workshops, exhibitions, performance, and film screenings in the capital city of Manila and three provincial cities in the Philippines with women artists from Indonesia, Singapore, the U.S. and the Philippines.