Ana Cetina
Sound design professor
Education
- M.F.A., Sound Design, Savannah College of Art and Design
- B.S., Audio Technology, American University
Credentials
Teaching
- Professor of sound design, 2025–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
- Co-founder and director of strategic communications and AI training, 2025, RootsAI Foundation, Washington, DC
- Director of media production, 2018–25, Education Development Center (EDC), Washington, DC
- Program director, audio technology, 2014–18, American University, Washington, DC
- Lecturer, electronic media and film department, 2011–14, Towson University, Towson, MD
Professional
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Film and TV — Sound Design and Post-production, 2006–25, various locations
- What it Felt Like (2025) – sound designer and sound mixer
- Our World, Our Work (2023) – producer, video editor, and sound mixer
- How We Thrive (2022) – sound mixer
- Español Para Los Pueblos Originarios (2022) – video editor and sound mixer
- Distance Learning in Haiti (2021) – video editor and sound mixer
- Rubí (2020) – sound designer and sound mixer
- Benelli Lupo TV Commercial (2019) – sound designer and sound mixer
- Colors of Resistance (2018) – supervising sound editor
- In the Executioner’s Shadow (2018) – sound editor, sound designer, and sound mixer
- Conscious Discipline 20th Anniversary (2017) – supervising sound editor
- When the Forest Weeps (2015) – dialog editor and sound mixer
- The Salinas Project (2015) – dialog editor and sound mixer
- How to Make a Bully From Scratch (2014) – sound designer and sound mixer
- Letter to My Mother (2011) – sound designer and sound mixer
- Rising to the Top (2010) – director, producer, sound mixer
- Killer Yacht Party (2009) – sound designer
- Sustaining Life (2009) – sound designer and sound mixer
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Theater — Sound Design and Mixing, 2003–16, Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre, Washington, DC
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2016) – sound designer
- Cabaret (2016) – sound designer
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2014) – sound designer
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2013) – sound designer
- Cabaret (2013) – sound designer
- Nine (2010) – sound designer
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Audio Only
- Apprentissage Accéléré par Instruction Audio (2025) – project director and sound supervisor
- Mental Health for All (2024) – sound supervisor
- EL Cayuco Volador (2023) – sound supervisor
- Let’s Read and Play (2022) – music supervisor
- English for the Workplace (2022) – sound supervisor
- Menta Hassab (2019) – sound supervisor
- Shubert and Sophie (2018) – sound designer and sound mixer
- Audio engineer and assistant producer, 2007–08, Urban Planet Mobile, Savannah, GA
- Live sound – front of house and monitor engineer, 2003–08, various locations
- Broadcast audio engineer, 2005–06, Georgia TeVe, Atlanta, GA
Organizations
- Audio Engineering Society
- National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys)
- Women and Minorities in Media
Publications and presentations
- Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) for Early Childhood Education — Co-presented at the World Bank’s International Symposium on Early Childhood Education, highlighting scalable strategies to strengthen early learning systems across Africa (2025).
- Generative AI and Cultural Preservation — Presented to Indigenous youth in the Philippines on data collection for AI and mitigating algorithmic bias (2025).
- Audio Production and Voice Acting Training — Delivered presentations to teams in Senegal, Indonesia, and the Philippines on audio quality, voice acting, and cultural integrity in media (2024–25).
- AI for International Development — Led sessions on ChatGPT and Microsoft Teams for EdTech and global development practitioners (2022–23).
- Language Assessment Innovation — Co-presented a bot-based tool developed with Microsoft and UCD at mEducation Alliance Symposium (2018).
- Industry Panelist and Academic Contributor — Panelist at events on women in entertainment, media industry careers, and interdisciplinary film/audio education (2013–17).
- Guest Lecturer — Regular contributor to American University courses in media production and arts management (2011–18).