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Migdia Chinea-Varela (a.k.a. Migdia Chinea) is a Cuban-American screenwriter. She wrote for several American television shows. She has been sometimes mentioned as an example of somebody who was treated wrongly by affirmative action programs. Chinea herself has argued passionately for merit-based hiring for upper level jobs. Chinea has written and directed a short film which was shown at a number of festivals.
Chinea was a writer for the TV series The Incredible Hulk, The Facts of Life, Punky Brewster, and Superboy.[1][2]
In 1988 Chinea wrote an essay in Newsweek's "My Turn" column describing her experiences with minority quotas.[3] Later she filed a 138.6 million dollar class-action discrimination lawsuit against the WGAw and CBS in response to their implementation of a training program for minority writers that gave these trainees half pay.[4] According to Chinea's attorney Scott Myer, the problem was that "the only people who went through it weren't trainees, they were people who were experienced writers."[4]
In 2007, Chinea worked as a substitute teacher at several schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She recounted her negative experiences in an article for WorldNet Daily.[5]
As of 2011 Chinea is studying film as a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She wrote and directed the short film Anonymous (Street Meat) as part of an experimental film course. The four minute film, which is based on her experiences with faulty mortgage foreclosure notices,[6] was accepted to screen at the Cannes Short Film festival and earned an honorable mention at the California International Shorts Film Festival. Chinea hopes to be able to film a full length version.[7][8]
