From 2019-2022, Claudia Romano worked as a Producer at MIT Open Documentary Lab (ODL), where she produced lab events and communications and supported various Lab initiatives including Docubase, the ODL Fellows Program, ODL’s semesterly lecture series, and the Co-Creation Studio. Prior to joining ODL, she produced communications and events at Say Yes to Education, she created social media and web content for FWD.us’s “I Am An Immigrant” Campaign for Immigrant Heritage Month, and she produced short documentary videos for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage about the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She is also a multimedia storyteller and filmmaker — her documentary work has been featured in festivals including the Tri-Co Film Festival, Rough Cut Film Festival, and Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, and she was previously a Social Justice Film Fellow with UPenn’s CAMRA.