Christine L. Mendoza has over a decade of experience in international youth media education. After producing two social-issue documentaries as a teenager at the Educational Video Center, she immediately began teaching film cash loans. Since then, she has facilitated workshops at cultural and educational institutions throughout NYC and well as internationally to youth in Finland, Northern Ireland and South Africa. She holds a BA in Media Studies from Hunter College and a MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queens University in Belfast. She is currently the Co-Director of EVC's Youth Documentary Workshop and a member of the International Center for Films for Children and Young People as well as a Leadership Fellow at the Youth Development Institute. She resides in Brooklyn, her hometown, with her husband.