Angela J. Aguayo is an associate professor of cinema and digital culture at Southern Illinois University. She is scholar-media maker whose practice reflects an interdisciplinary approach to documentary, media studies, rhetoric, and critical cultural theory. Her most recent book Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media (Oxford University Press, 2019) is focused on agency, collective identification and participatory media cultures, investigating the possibilities for the documentary impulse to engage the process of social change. She is also an award-winning writer, director, and producer of multiple documentary shorts utilized in community engagement campaigns, screened at various festivals and museums around the world.