Lamar Bailey Karamañites
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- Baruch College
- Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
- Harvard University
Lamar Bailey Karamañites | |
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| Born | Lamar Bailey Karamañites |
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| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker Educator |
| Years active | 2021–present |
| Mother | Gloria Karamañites |
Lamar Bailey Karamañites is a Panamanian filmmaker, educator and an activist in the Afro-Panamanian social movement. She is known for her film Miss Panama (2021).[1][2]
Lamar Bailey Karamañites graduated from the Baruch College (CUNY) in 2010 with a degree in Marketing and completed a Masters program in Development and Cooperation from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, in Valencia, Spain in 2021.[3][4] She graduated from the Centro de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos (ALARI) through the Hutchins Center at Harvard University.
From 2014 to 2019, she worked as a teacher in Panama City, teaching English, History, and Human Geography with a focus on human rights, utilizing the Multiple Intelligences Methodology and an inclusive teaching approach.[5]
In Panama, Karamañites was a member of the Afro-Panamanian Youth Network and is currently a member of Voices of Afro-descendant Women in Panama (VOMAP) and the Afro-Panamanian Forum. While living in Spain, Karamañites was a co-founder of Uhuru, also known as Uhuru Valencia, an organization with the stated goal of fighting against anti-black racism and creating a community of Black, African, Afrodescendant and Afro-European people of all ages and origins.[6][7]
In 2021, she codirected the documentary short film Miss Panama (2021), which had a world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival in 2021.[2] Her codirectors were Pascale Boucicaut (Haitian-American filmmaker, folklorist, and anthropologist) and David Felix Sutcliffe (US American filmmaker and activist).
In May 2022 Karamañites participated in Afrodiastories alongside filmmaker and historian Dash Harris Machado. Afrodiastories was a radio project through NPR and LAist Studios's audio lab, Oye: The Lab for Latinx Creators, with the goal of promoting the full inclusion of Afro-Panamanians into the national narrative of Panamanian identity by highlighting the achievements of the Afro-Panamanian youth.[8]
In 2022, Karamañites joined the International Service for Human Rights as a Coalition Coordinator. She is currently a manager for the UN Coalition Against Racism (UNARC).[9] Through UNARC, Karamañites is a part of the Implementation Team for the Decade of People of African Descent in Spain 2015-2024.[10]