Meet Rebeca Maxon

Rebeca is a three-time University of Michigan graduate and current doctoral candidate studying Educational Psychology at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a Latinx Southwest Detroiter (born and raised) who focuses on how racial/ethnic identity, culture, community, and grassroots educational frameworks play a role in the uplifting of disenfranchised communities. As an interdisciplinary scholar and creative, she is passionate about using visual and documentary mediums to help uplift community-driven organizing and storytelling as a means to combat cultural, community, and racial erasure.

Rebeca is also a 2021 Native Agency International Environmental Photography Lab fellow, a 2020 Inside Southwest Detroit Artist in Residence, and a 2019-2020 Documenting Detroit: Facing Change Fellow. She has exhibited her artwork at the Detroit Artist Market Gallery, The Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, the DLECTRICITY Nighttime Exhibit of Art & Light, and at the 2021 Virtual Freep Film Festival.