Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, researcher, community activist, and Fulbright scholar. With a Ph.D. from Duke University and an MFA in Intermedia Arts from the University of Iowa, Ferrera-Balanquet is a Founder member of Latino Midwest Video Collective and Laboratorio Cartodigital, and member of the Mariel Generation. He is a Latinx Cuban American living in Los Angeles, California and Merida, Mexico.