Melanie La Rosa is an award-winning filmmaker and film professor. Her most recent documentary, “How To Power A City”  (2024) explores renewable energy projects in six U.S. and Puerto Rico locales. She is the author of “Contemporary Post-Production: Create, Cut, Collaborate, Color, Deliver” (Routledge, 2025), and a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Her films have screened worldwide at special events, festivals, conferences, aired nationally on PBS, and are used in college courses. Her writing appears in NACLA, The Progressive, and other national publications.