Michelle Cheripka is a writer, producer, and activist currently based in the UK. Her research projects, photography, and film work focus on personal experiences of systemic issues. She is the founder of Visible Poetry Project, a nonprofit that pairs poets with filmmakers to transform poems into short films.Michelle’s independent film work has s...
Read MoreMichelle Cheripka is a writer, producer, and activist currently based in the UK. Her research projects, photography, and film work focus on personal experiences of systemic issues. She is the founder of Visible Poetry Project, a nonprofit that pairs poets with filmmakers to transform poems into short films.Michelle’s independent film work has screened in festivals and venues in New York, London, Los Angeles, Boston, Beijing, and Rotterdam. She has also worked with producers at Universal Television, Wolf Films, Marvel Studios, STX Films, and the Columbia University Media and Idea Lab, among others, on a variety of television series, commercials, documentaries, Facebook Live series, and feature films.Michelle holds a BA in English from Columbia University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and holds an MPhil with Distinction in the Sociology of Media & Culture from University of Cambridge, where she conducted research on visual and narrative representations of climate change in fiction film.
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