Paloma Valenzuela is a screenwriter/filmmaker and lecturer originally from the city of Boston. She is a 2018-2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Neighborhood Salon Luminary and a 2019 City of Boston Artist Fellow. Her work has been an official selection at film festivals such as The New Orleans Film Festival, CineFest Latino Boston, and the Roxbury International Film Festival. She has taught screenwriting and film at GrubStreet, Brandeis University, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston’s Teens Fast Forward Film Program.