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Nicole Esquibel, MFA

Associate Professor Phone 816-501-2404

Nicole Esquibel is an award-winning video and filmmaker, writer, and poet. She is a graduate of the esteemed University of Iowa’s MFA-Film and Video Production program. Her theoretical articles, critical reviews, and written works of fiction have appeared in numerous publications including, Experimental Film: The Missing Frames, Sinister Wisdom, and Our Voices. She has collaborated with filmmakers on documentaries premiered on PBSAmerican MastersITVS and German television, and Danish TV. Ms. Esquibel’s films and videos have screened both domestically and internationally, including winning the “Between the Lines” award at the prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival. Neva Romero: Jamas Olividados won the “best short documentary” at the XicanIndie Film Festival and enjoyed the second year of screenings across the U.S. Her latest film, Through Hardships, We Became Stars, is a full-dome immersive cinema experience collaboration with composer Conrad Kehn and The Playground Ensemble. She is currently in pre-production on her latest documentary examining the lynching of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. 

Ms. Esquibel was a guest panelist at the United Nations 62nd Commission on Women’s Status in New York, NY. She has served as a member of a wide variety of boards and has recently sat on the Advisory Board of Nuestra Herencia at The Kansas City Museum. At this present time, she is a Board Member at the Rime Center for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, the Kansas City Opioid Treatment Work Group, and the Board of Directors for First Call-Kansas City. Esquibel is Chair of the School of Visual and Communication Arts. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her three large dogs and Bowie the cat.

Visiting Artist, Through Hardships, We Became Stars. Immersive Cinema collaboration w the Playground Ensemble, Denver Museum of Natural History-Gates Planetarium-September 29, 2022
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Boulder Colorado, September 15, 2022
Certificate, Storytelling for Social Change, Currently enrolled
Certificate, ​​Foundations for Transforming Teaching and Learning about Native Americans January 2022
Visiting Artist, Meet the Spirits, Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados film screening and Q and A. October 17, 2020
Visiting Artist, Through Hardships, We Became Stars. Immersive Cinema collaboration w the Playground Ensemble, Moxsonic- Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival – March 7, 2020
Visiting Artist, Through Hardships, We Became Stars. Immersive Cinema collaboration w the Playground Ensemble, Avila University- March 5, 2020
Visiting Artist, Through Hardships, We Became Stars. Immersive Cinema collaboration w the Playground Ensemble, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery-Feb 21, 2020
Visiting Artist, Through Hardships, We Became Stars. Immersive Cinema collaboration w the Playground Ensemble, Boulder County Library- Feb. 18, 2020
Interview, Boulder Daily Camera, September 9, 2019,
Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados film screening, Bicultural and Bilingual Studies, University of Texas-San Antonio 9/28/2018
Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados film screening, Chican@/Latinx Cultural Center, University of Arizona-Tucson, 9/2018
Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados film screening, Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Chicanos, Boise State University, 4/02/2019
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Boulder Colorado, September 26, 2018
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Boulder Colorado, September 26-27, 2018
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Boulder Colorado, April 17, 2018
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening, and Q and A, Pueblo Colorado, April 16, 2018
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Ignacio Colorado, April 13, 2018
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Durango Colorado, April 12, 2018
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening and Q and A, Gunnison Colorado, April 10, 2018
Official Selection-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados, film screening, XicanIndie Film Festival, Denver, April 5-8, 2018
XicanIndie Film Festival “Premio Citlalicue” Award-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados
Panelist “The Changing Scenery in the Film Industry,” 62nd Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations SRC Multimedia Guild, New York, NY 3/14/201
Visiting Artist-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados film screening, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Chicano Archives, November 28, 2017
“Ignite the Excellence Within” Kansas City Professional Development Council (KCPDC)- Professional Development Conference, Kansas City Community College, May 23, 2018
Official Selection-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados film screening, Colorado System Faculty Symposium., “Advocacy: Joining Together to Promote Equity and Inclusion” Nov 3, 2017.
Official Selection- Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados film screening, Chautauqua Documentary Film Series, Boulder CO, September 19, 2017
Official Selection-Neva Romero: Jamás Olvidados film screening, Annual University Film and Video Association conference. American University. Washington D.C. August 6-8, 2015
Official Selection-Tu Mi Quieres Blanca (You want me White) film screening, America: Here and Now exhibition (touring) Spring-Summer 2011
Publication-The Image and the Border: The Films of Willie Varela, Avila University Press. Fall 2010
Official Selection-La Pucelle film screening-Kansas City Film Festival, April 10, 2010
Official Selection-La Pucelle film screening-Kansas International Film Festival, September 2009
Official Selection-Divided Into One film screening San Francisco Trans/Genre Film Festival, Spring 2010
Publication-Two poems, These Streets/My Body and Masks, were selected for publication in the 2009 summer issue of Sinister Wisdom.
Speeches, lectures, etc.:
Webinar, Foundations of Teaching Excellence (Active Learning Strategies to Engage Students) – Friday, October 23, 2020
NALIP, Latino Media Fest, Web Conference, October 14-16, 2020
Webinar, Foundations of Teaching Excellence: Quality course design (Blended, Online & Face to Face), September 26, 2020
Webinar, Advanced Elements of Teaching Excellence: Maximizing Blended Potential: Finding Balance with Course Development, September 12, 2020
Association for Talent Development (ATD)-Panelist, higher education representatives to speak with ATD members (HR professionals, trainers, talent development managers, instructional designers, performance consultants, etc.) June 11, 2019, Mid-Nazarene University
Higher Ed 901: Eduventures Summit, 2019, Boston, MA. June 5-7, 2019
Women Make Movies Filmmakers Panel, Kansas City Film Festival, Panelist, April 13, 2019
Documentary Juror, Kansas City Film Festival, March -April 2019
The Importance of Women in Film, The Central Exchange, Panelist, Kansas City, MO. March 26, 2019
Participant-Peace Studies Summer Institute- Kroc Institute for Peace. Notre Dame University. June 11-15, 2018
Guest Lecturer-Guatemala: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Peacebuilding and Nonviolence: Beyond the Clichés Conference. Park University, November 3, 2017
Guest Lecturer- Mom, Can We Borrow This?: How to use practical lights to create your Hollywood Masterpiece. Workshop presentation-Take-5 High School Film Festival. Johnson County Community College. March 30, 2016
Paper Presentation- Response to the film, cyberGenesis (Experimental, 13 min, André Silva, University of North Carolina -Wilmington). Annual UFVA (University Film and Video Association) conference. American University. Washington D.C. August 6-8, 2015
Guest Lecturer- Los Seis de Boulder and Neva Romero-The Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado. May 2015
Guest Lecturer- Mom, Can We Borrow This?: How to use practical lights to create your Hollywood Masterpiece. Workshop presentation-Take-5 High School Film Festival. Johnson County Community College. April 5, 2015
Guest Lecturer-“If I Had a Trillion Dollars Youth Film Festival.”. Kansas City, MO January 11, 2015
Attended Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting Washington D.C. January 2015
Guest Lecturer- El Violin: Resurgence of a New Mexican Cinema. As part of the Nelson-Atkins film series in conjunction with Frida Kahlo*Diego Rivera and Modern Mexico’s Masterpieces. The Natasha Gelman Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. August 3, 2013
Guest Lecturer- Mom, Can We Borrow This?: How to use practical lights to create your Hollywood Masterpiece. I presented the workshop to an audience of 150 high school students from around the Kansas City area. As part of the Take-5 High School Film Festival. Johnson County Community College. April 5, 2014
Visiting Professor-Video Activism, University of Pecs, Hungary. March 2011
Visiting Professor-Video Activism, Dinex Filmokatato, Budapest, Hungary. March 2011
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