Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. She is the author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (winner, 2004 CHOICE Award) and The Latino Media Gap, and has edited several books, including Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Nationalism and Colonialism; None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era, and Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America. Negrón-Muntaner's films include Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican, and War in Guam. She is also a founding board member and past chair of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), and a founding curator of Columbia University's Latino Arts and Activism Archive. In 2005, she was named as 1 of "100 Most Influential Hispanics" by Hispanic Business magazine. In 2008, the United Nations' Rapid Response Media Mechanism recognized her as a “global expert." She received Columbia University's “Most Distinguished Faulty Award” (2012). In 2017, she received an inaugural OZY Educator Award.