Panel: Impact Beyond the Classroom

Friday, November 6 | 4:30-6:00 PM

A showcase of SCA student work from across the school's programs.

Room: SCA 108

Panelists include:

• David de Rozas (iMAP)
  • The Infinite City: Skid Row Cinema Commons is a participant-driven arts initiative that partners Skid Row residents with USC students to reimagine Downtown Los Angeles’s past and present structural realities. Rooted in reciprocal mentorship and horizontal ways of working, the project serves as an experimental ground for generating situated counter-narratives in a community with a long history of fighting back against stereotypes. In partnership with the Skid Row Arts Alliance (Los Angeles Poverty Department, The Sidewalk Project, Piece by Piece, and Urban Voices Project), The Infinite City spans eight months of hands-on workshops and production labs hosted at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, culminating in a series of free public screenings in June 2027.
• Jada Kamau (Production)
  • The inspiration of Hot Comb came from the director's own relationship with her natural hair, while also being narratively and lyrically inspired by the broader African American culture and history surrounding hair. The goal with this film is to tell, in a condensed yet meaningful way, the natural hair journey that many Black women experience—an awakening to love what was generously given to us from birth: our natural hair, from the roots of our head to the tips of our curls.
• KShae Reyes (Production)
  • Aliguyon is an immersive virtual reality adaptation of a hudhud, an endangered Ifugao epic storytelling form traditionally passed down through communal chant. During a legendary three-year duel, two warriors inherit their fathers’ feud but ultimately recognize each other as equals and choose reconciliation over revenge. Created by a Filipino American filmmaker in collaboration with Filipino cultural advisors, dancers, martial artists, and a predominantly Filipino and Asian crew, the film uses movement, music, and spatial storytelling to preserve ancestral knowledge, connect diasporic audiences with Filipino heritage, and offer a timely vision of peace, solidarity, and honor without bloodshed.
• Sophia Wolfe (Expanded Animation)
  • An Artist’s Role in Emergent and Confrontational Technology – Through an ongoing artistic collaboration with Sophia the Robot, Sophia Wolfe investigates how animation serves as research methodology for cyborg psychology and emerging theories of mind. Artistic experimentation through animation, performance, motion capture, autoethnography, and alternative research reevaluates the technical, emotional, and ethical aspects of confrontational new technologies.