Carrie Lanza is a doctoral student in Social Welfare at University of Washington. Her methodological approaches integrate critical pedagogies, community-based research practices, participatory digital culture, and media production. Exploring topics such as social work/welfare history and community arts practices as sites of social action, her recent projects include developing and teaching a course entitled, “Community Based Participatory Media in Indigenous Communities” with Professor Daniel Hart and exploring the genealogy of media-based welfare interventions during the Progressive and New Deal eras. Lanza earned her MSW at University of Michigan in Community Organizing, her BA in Cultural Anthropology at Ohio University and a certificate in Independent Filmmaking from University of Washington.
