Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, curator, scholar, and professor at Columbia University, where she is founding director of the Media and Idea Lab. Among her books and publications are Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture and “The Latino Media Gap.” Negrón-Muntaner is also founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive at Columbia’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.