Nuria Seriñá

Nuria Seriñá is a devoted cinephile who believes it is a human right for everyone to have access to a clean ocean. She was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She lived there and in Miami, Florida, for the first ten years of her life, going to the beach every weekend with her family, one of the main reasons preserving a clean ocean is so important to her. Then, she moved to Mexico City, Mexico. She studied International Relations and human rights. She worked for ten years for different nonprofit organizations, including one focused on helping migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, some of whom were displaced by climate change.

She moved to San Francisco, California, with her husband in 2015. She worked for five years at the Consulate General of Mexico, holding different positions, including Community AffairsAssociate and Special Projects Adviser for the Consul General, focusing on advancing migrants’ education in the Bay Area and coordinating a STEM for Latina Girls program, among other projects. She was a volunteer member of the San Francisco GreenFilm Festival screening committee in 2019 and 2020. She is a Lead Educator at the Bay AreaDiscovery Museum, a children's museum in Sausalito focused on STEM, as part of the School and Community Programs team.

She joined the IOFF screening committee in September 2024