Megan Pennings (she/her) is an Xicana educator and artist from the San Gabriel Valley city of Baldwin Park, California. Megan’s photography is focused on storytelling within portraiture, documentary, still life, and urban lifestyle, centering around my interest in social media, culture, and community and how identity and social expression are formed within photography. Megan is also an adjunct faculty member in Ethnic Studies at various California Community Colleges and a Digital Photography high school teacher. Megan received her MFA in Photography at the Academy of Art University San Francisco, an MA in Mexican-American Studies and a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cal State LA, a dual BA in Sociology with an Emphasis on Inequalities and Diversity, and Mexican-American Studies, and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cal State LA and an AA in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC).