About
Staff
Wide Angle Staff Members
Gin Ferrara, Founder and Professional Development Coordinator
Gin founded Wide Angle Community Media in 2000, as a means to provide ongoing media education resources to Baltimore communities. She has been a media educator since 1995, working with youth through Baltimore Youth Television, Kids on the Hill, on the Wind River Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. Gin has also been a digital video editor, graphic designer, and illustrator. She received her BFA from Alfred University, and has studied film and video at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Gin graduated from the LEADERship in 2007. gin@wideanglemedia.org
Susan Hayman Malone, Executive Director
Susan joined Wide Angle in 2003, managing our youth media workshops, and public events, and daily operations. With a focus on sustainability, she is working to improve our fundraising efforts while expanding partnerships, and building sustainabilty. She graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with her BFA in photography and has been working in the Baltimore art community for the past 13 years. She was a Co-Founder of Photoworks, and has been an arts administrator at Maryland Art Place, Mission Media and the Baltimore Museum of Art. susan@wideanglemedia.org
Siobhan Marie, Older Youth & Summer Coordinator
Siobhan Marie is an independent documentary filmmaker from the Big Apple. She received he r BA in theater from Spelman College and MA in Performance Studies in Film from New York University Tisch School ofthe Arts. Siobhan has traveled the world (only Ghana and Peru actually) conducting film and cultural performance projects. Currently, Siobhan lives in Maryland fighting for social justice through media. siobhan@wideanglemedia.org
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Sarah has called Baltimore home for the past three and a half years. During her stay in Charm City, she realized her interests involved youth produced media as well as alternative education programs. She coordinates our middle school programs including the Baltimore Speaks Out! Program at the Herring Run and Orleans Street Library Branches. sarah@wideanglemedia.org
David Sloan, Technical Instructor
David Sloan has worked as a community-based media artist and activist since 2006, when he assisted Cira Pascual Marquina to curate the Headquarters exhibition at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. He received his MFA in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and currently teaches youth how to make media as an educator with Wide Angle Youth Media while assisting with grants and special projects.
david@wideanglemedia.org
Jesse Heffler, Assistant Instructor
Jesse is a recent SUNY Purchase graduate. In his time there as a dramatic writing student in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film, he had the pleasure of seeing his work performed on campus and at Playwrights Horizons in New York. Even more recently, he has moved to Baltimore and seeks collaborators for experimental theatre projects, much akin to those he was exposed to as an intern at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. He has taught narrative film making to teens at Purchase's summer Youth Programs in the Arts, and is delighted to be working with Wide Angle Youth Media this year. jesse@wideanglemedia.org
April Montebon, Assistant Instructor ![]()
April Montebon has been actively involved with Wide Angle since she was in high school. After graduating from the Mentoring Video Project and Youth Media Festival Crew, April got her first teaching job as a youth mentor for the Girls Speak Out! Program and has taken on a variety of mentoring opportunities at Wide Angle. April recently coordinated a statewide video competition for Maryland young adults called "My 2 Cents: A Maryland Video Competition" and participated in the Walter Sondheim Jr. Maryland Nonprofit Leadership Program. She attends University of Baltimore and majors in Community Studies and Civic Engagement. april@wideanglemedia.org