Christina Wright

Office: HGH 234
christina.m.wright01@sjsu.edu

Christina Wright is a Lecturer in Film Studies, as well as a Screenwriter and Social Emotional Arts Facilitator. She works as a Film Review & Curation Consultant for Wayfarer Theaters and previously worked for the San Francisco Giants Video Board Productions, as a Director and Producer for KMVT 15–Silicon Valley Media and Curriculum Writer for Journeys in Film and Growing Leaders. Christina ran an after-school program, Lights, Character, Action!, using film and drama as teaching tools to develop character and leadership skills and is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the San José – Dublin Sister City Program and previously served on the Advisory Board for the Salinas Valley Arts and Innovation Hub and the Communications Committee for the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition.  Christina holds an M.Phil in Film Theory and History from Trinity College Dublin, B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University and A.A. in Speech Communications from Foothill College. She has been published in Edutopia and is currently authoring a book on the use of film as a vehicle for discourse.