Mia Ferm is a recent graduate of the Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image MA program at the University of Amsterdam. For about a decade she has been a curator for and co-director of Cinema Project in Portland, Oregon, a collective that presents public screenings of experimental film and video. Before returning to school in 2019, she worked as the Education Programs Manager at the Northwest Film Center. Currently, she volunteers her time at the Oregon Historical Society, focusing on video materials related to Portland public access television. Her previous degrees are from NYU in Cinema Studies and UCSD in Film History and Production.