Kavena Hambira

Adjunct Professor | Filmmaker

Education
Dec 2022 

• Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of California, Berkeley

​Film Screenings and Exhibitions
​Feb 2015 - Mar 2025   

• Film Screening, Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
• Film Screening, University of Michigan, African Studies Center, – Ann Arbor, MI
• Film Screening, University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI 
• Film Screening, Lehrhaus – Somerville, MA
• ​Film Screening, The University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS
• Film Screening, Maine Film Center, Waterville, ME 
• Film Screening, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 
• Film Screening, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
• Film Screening, University of Michigan, African Studies Center, Ann Arbor, MI 
• Film Screening, St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, St. Louis, MO
• Film Screening, Joyce Gordon Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
• Exhibition, Memory for the Future, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
• Exhibition, Black Space Residency, San Francisco, CA
• Exhibition, The 52nd Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA 
• Group Exhibition, Tunnels of the Mind, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Symposium, Black Studies Collaboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Facilitator, Artist Talk - Dewey Crumpler, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Facilitator, Artist Talk - Cephus X Johnson, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Film Screening, LaborFest Film Festival, Stanford University, Palo Alto

Awards & Residencies
Aug 2012 - Oct 2024

• Fulbright Scholar, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA (2012)
• Black Studies Collaboratory SGP Award, University of California, Berkeley, CA (2022)
• Artist-Scholar-in-Residence, Memory for the Future Studiolab, Washington University in STL, St. Louis, MO (2023)
• Artist-in-Residence, Black [Space] Residency, Minnesota Street Project Studio, San Francisco, CA (2023)
• Justice Vanguard Award, Love Not Blood Campaign, Oakland, CA (2024)

Lecturing
 Jan 2021 - Jan 2024

•  JS297 - Germany’s Genocides in Africa and Europe, Colby College, Waterville  
• ART 3626 - Visual Storytelling for Video, California State University, Stanislaus
• ART 1040 - Foundation Digital Media, California State University, Stanislaus
• ART 3621- Narrative Video, California State University, Stanislaus
• Art 260 - Moving Image/ Video: Foundations, University of California, Berkeley
• Art160 - Art Criticism for a Changing World, University of California, Berkeley
• Art 8 - Introduction to Visual Thinking, University of California, Berkeley
• CFH 426 - Memory for the Future – University of Washington in St. Louis 

Guest Lecturing
 Feb 2025 - Mar 2025

• Lecture, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Lecture, SOC-STD 98PO: States, Empires, and Postcolonialism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Lecture, SOC-STD 98fr: Fascism and Far-Right Movements, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Lecture, SOC-STD 68de: Democracy in the Trenches, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Published Writing                                                  
Feb 2019 - July 2021

• Germany Apologized for a Genocide. It’s Nowhere Near Enough, New York Times, New York, NY
• Interview with Edward Snowden Lawyer, Wolfgang Kaleck, Voelkerrechtsblog, Cologne, Germany
• The Trip North, Doek Magazine, Windhoek, Namibia