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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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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).