Suree Towfighnia is a social practice filmmaker and educator originally from Chicago, IL.  For the past two decades, her work has centered environmental justice and human rights issues that balance narratives, inform policy, and support historically underrepresented communities. Suree is currently producing documentaries on Indigenous filmmaking in southern Mexico, coffee farmers in Oaxaca, and water protectors in the Colorado River region. She has taught in higher ed since 2002 in the U.S. and Cuba and was full-time faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA from 2017-2023, teaching media theory and production in full-time programs. Suree currently teaches Video Production at MSU Denver.