Chon A. Noriega is Professor of Critical Studies and Associate Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (Minnesota, 2000) and editor of eight books, including Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video (Minnesota, 2000) and I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures (Beacon, 2000). Since 1996, he has been editor of Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, the flagship journal for the field since its founding in 1970. Noriega has curated numerous media and visual arts projects, including "Just Another Poster: Chicano Graphic Arts in California," which is traveling nationwide through 2003. He has also helped recover and preserve independent films, including the first three Chicano-directed feature films, which are being restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Noriega has received the Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. Since 1999, he has been a key figure in the creation of the 300-member National Association of Latino Independent Producers. In 2000, Noriega moderated the Arts and Entertainment Summit of the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus, developing the policy recommendations for the current legislative session; and in 2001 he was named to the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service. He is currently completing two books and starting a multi-year collaborative research project on the history of racial minorities in independent film, public television and digital media production.