Jamia Zarzuela
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reflect the time
About
Jamia Zarzuela
Jamia Zarzuela is a strong believer in Nina Simone's philosophy that, “An artist's duty... is to reflect the time.” For Nina, it was only natural to combine her love of art & passion for social matters. For Jamia, it is storytellingcthrough various art mediums to digestibly present complex nuances and overwhelming data.
As a grad student studying public policy, self-published poet, award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, and photo-journalist, she knows a thing or two bring a cohesive vision together, while working all angles is a true digital renaissance woman.
What i do
Photography | Event Coordination | Podcast Development |
As a photographer I specialize in portraits and photojournalis. | Be it online or in person I am well verse in event coordination. determine the budget, planning the program, hosting, and curating are only a few roles I’ve fulfilled on the many events I ran. | as a podcaster myself, I am well versed in, things like the distribution and engineering process, creating episode structure, topic planning & engagement. |
Brand Strategy | Videography | Digital Creation |
With an education that revolves around communicating change, my strength is in using various art mediums to digestibly and aesthetically present complex nuances and overwhelming data. | I am an award winning fimmaker that also | My specialty as a multimedia storyteller is to expand social media outlets by presenting aesthetically digestible content, tailored to various social media platform. |
My
Work
Investigative Journalism
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Data analysis
My primary role was investigative journalistic data analysis. While I often conducted archival and textual analysis, I’d later produce statistical data sets for my team’s use. This was done by creating, maintaining and updating spreadsheets that were no-short-of digestible overviews for overwhelming information. Other sources I examined included, but weren’t limited to, campaign-finance donations records I later connect people and entities to. I also thumbed through tax filing, legal records, and other basic fact-finding to then create spreadsheets and monitor for trends or possible outliers. Lastly, I was responsible for obtaining various documents by doing FOIA request for different levels of government entities.
Social media
Because the information given were a range of different document type, condensing the data I found was crucial for deadline. After the data was reviewed, I would do a mix of writing contribution for on going reports, release my own original reporting, and filmed commentary. I also took it upon myself to create graphics for the data to attach to the article as well as tailor those graphics for various social media platforms. Creating this transparency allowed us to build our social media presence from the ground up.
Voting rights
Investigative Journalism Work
These Corporations Just Made it Harder for Marginalized Groups to Battle Voter Suppression
By: Zoltan Lucas, Jamia Zarzuela Jul 9, 2021
Article synopsis for Social Media engagement
Live Political Commentary
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich speaks about his run for senate with Fox 10 News.
Image: Screenshot from Fox 10 News.)
The Arizona official who just convinced the Supreme Court to make it tougher to fight voter suppression was re-elected three years ago with the financial support of some of America’s biggest companies, campaign filings show.
It has been six months now since some of the biggest corporations in the U.S made public commitments to protecting voting rights. Many pledged not to give money to the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Companies also condemned baseless voter-fraud claims, pledged money for voter equity efforts, and publicly supported racial-justice movements including Black Lives Matter.
The truth is, voter restriction efforts led by some members of the GOP have been running full steam ahead since far before the 2020 elections. And new pledges from many corporations to protect democracy can’t erase the role they played in those efforts, including years of political donations made to candidates fighting for restrictive voting laws. But the current urgency from many public figures, including the U.S attorney general, gives corporations a chance to condemn the lawmakers they once supported.
Written Article
Sankofa Sister Circle
This event was an opportunity for Evergreen student, Faculty, Alumni and the Tacoma community to bear witness to Woman excellence today. We recognized and honored The founder of The Evergreen State College Tacoma ,Dr Maxine Mimms, along side recently retired faculty Dr. Gilda Sheppard, and alumni such as Tacoma City Councilwoman Kira Daniels during Woman’s History Month.
As the Event coordinator and host my responsibilities included creating and adhering to a budget, planning and running the service, along with other corresponding duties.
Personal Projects
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Inclusion
Equity and inclusion is one of the main reason I do this work. I believe that providing space for the hustorically magionlized is one way
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Storytelling
The evolution of negro spiritual, to blues, to rap proves that artistry is ancestral work. It is a staple of my culture to the culture. As an artist at heart I believe, as Nina Simone said that my duty, “... is to reflect the time.”
Exhibit
Awards & Press
Award — 2022
Awarded as a GSBA scholar and a recpient of The Pride Foundation
Award — 2023
Savory: Poetic Photography and film is an Official selection for 2 film festivals
Award — 2023
A Daniel J. Evans School and Evans Dean fellow at the University of Washington
Lets connect
Work with Jamia
Jamiaz@uw.edu
(310)-663-9003
thapoliticalpoet.com
@jamiazarzuela