ERIN CHRISTOVALE is a curator based in Los Angeles focusing on film/video within the African Diaspora. She graduated with a B.A. from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and her most recent exhibition, a/wake in the water:Meditations on Disaster was featured at the MoCADA Museum this past Fall. She also works with a collective of creatives called Native Thinghood promoting emerging artists of color around the city.