This document summarizes an outreach project focused on identities at North Star University. It details the creator's trajectory working in documentary filmmaking and digital storytelling over 18 years, producing 27 scholarly articles and 61 conference papers. Their tenure portfolio emphasizes using outreach as a north star, highlighted by a documentary called "Brenda's Story: From Undocumented to Documented" which follows one student's journey from undocumented to documented status. It details the challenges of building media distribution and impact, as well as telling personal narratives through reflective essays and oral histories to showcase how their work has impacted and represented diverse communities.

1. Outreach & Identities – North
Stars
(July 12, 2023) Sci Comm Identities Project

2. TALKING POINTS?
1
2
3
Trajectory
Tenure Challenges &
Victories
To Do

3. PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS

4. Once Upon a Time ….

5. LOREM IPSUM
 1973: Baguio City
Philippines to Flint,
MI
PHOTO(S)

6. UM, IU,
MSU
 18 Documentary Films
 3 Websites
 3 ArtPrize Exhibits
 2 Radio Series
 1 Video Game Series
 1 Comic Book
 1 Book (TBD)
 27 Scholarly Articles
 61 Conference Papers

7. LOREM IPSUM
 “Breed & Bootleg”
– Flint (2021)

8. “Brenda’s Story: From
Undocumented to
Documented” (2022)
Why sharing?
Tenure & Promotion
Challenges
Victories

10. “Brenda’s Story: From
Undocumented to
Documented” (2022)
Why sharing?
Tenure & Promotion
Portfolio
Challenges:
1. Building a back story — Media &
Distribution Campaign
a. Using Outreach as my NORTH
Star

11. Outreach as my North
Star
MSU’s Land-Grant Identity
Founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, Michigan
State University was the nation’s first agricultural college. It was the vanguard for
a national movement to make useful advanced education available to a broad
public. The Morrill Act of 1862 codified the idea of combining “liberal and
practical” education for the “industrial classes” and over time provided a means
of support for at least one college in every state to teach agriculture, mechanical
arts and military tactics. Funding came in the form of grants of land from the
federal government, giving rise to a shorthand name for both the act and the
colleges it supported: land grant.

12. “Brenda’s Story: From
Undocumented to
Documented” (2022)
Why sharing?
Tenure & Promotion
Portfolio
Challenges:
1. Building a back story — Media &
Distribution Campaign — storyboard/story
arc — Act 1, 2 — timing
a. Using Outreach as my NORTH Star
i. WKAR-TV (PBS) — Audiences
ii. Cross U Collabs — Julian
Samora Institute, Diversity
Research Network
iii. Meet once a year – Dean, Chair
– in writing
iv. Mentors — in and OUTSIDE
i. External reviewers
v. Awards
vi. Grant
vii. Website
viii. Festivals

13. 5 AWARDS (2022-23)
NATIONAL
BROADCAST
EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION
1. Diversity & Inclusion
Creative Award.
2. Award of Excellence.
Teacher-Student Co-
Production Category
REGIONAL
3. Michigan Emmy®
Nomination in the
Human Interest
4. J-SCHOOL Regional
Edward R. Murrow
Award. Excellence in
Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion. Small Market
TV in Regi
STATE
5. WKAR-TV Merit
Award in Independent
Producer. Michigan
Association of
Broadcasters.

14. Awards

15. “Brenda’s Story: From
Undocumented to
Documented” (2022)
Why sharing?
Tenure & Promotion
Portfolio
Challenges:
2. Telling the story — Narrative
Thread — reflective essay
a. #s impacted
b. Research:
a. Case Study: One
student/one family
b. Oral Histories
c. Critical/Culture Theory
d. Ethnographic film
e. Conference papers
f. Databases: IMDb,
Academic Analytics,
ORCID iD, Scopus ID
c. Teaching & Service: MA Doc
Film Concentration,

16. Rap on Flint
…………………
The Death of an Imam
(2010)
Social Science Research
Council grant
BEA Best of Festival
The Kings of Flint
(2011)
Emmy ® nominated
Dr. Farley
“In Absentia: The Lost
One of
Amerca’s/Motown’s
Revolutions
(2021)
Medicine, Film & the Arts
(2021)
Mary Finedore
College of Human
Medicine
The Documented?
Oral Histories of Spartan
Students
(2022+)
Saima Siddique & Ummul
Baneen (2022+) Pakistan
25
Students invovled
Dr. Brian J. Bowe
W. Washington U.
Dr. Joyce-Zoe Farley
Formerly U. of Alabama - Birmingham
Cristina Calva
MA StratCom
Pathway to PhD Program
Teaching:
Documentary Students

17. Conference Cameos:
• March 2022 Research Flash Talk.
Enacting Inclusive Futures: A
Symposium on APIDA/A MSU’s APIDA
(Asian Pacific Islander Desi American/)
and A (Asian) Communities
• April 2022 Cristina Calva Research in
Progress. “Documented, undocumented
and DACA students – oral histories of
Spartan students” Broadcast Education
Association — Multicultural Studies
Division
• August 2022 Calva. “Undocumented
College Students” AEJMC’s Cultural and
Critical Studies. Poster.

18. “Brenda’s Story: From
Undocumented to
Documented” (2022)
In Progress: Research
(IRB) and Festivals

19. LOREM IPSUM
 Earlier:
 1973: Baguio City
Philippines to Flint,
MI
PHOTO(S)

20. “Brenda’s Story: From
Undocumented to
Documented” (2022)
Why sharing?
3. North Star: Identities
—— Who Gets to be
Called
An American?

21. THANK YOU!
ALUMITGE@MSU.EDU
https://www.thedocumentedstories.co
m/
(2021)