Meet Thalia Anora INDS Fall 2025 Graduate Highlight Series

B.A.: Creative Enterprise & Sociocultural Leadership

Degree Mentors 

Why did you choose to major in INDS?

INDS offered the opportunity for me to curate and claim my education, blending my passions for creativity, social change, and entrepreneurship. Now, as a creative director, artist, and leader, INDS represented a stable platform to prepare me for a career in creative entrepreneurship, aligning my education with cultivating community. 

What are your plans for after graduation, and how do you see using your INDS degree?

My vision, informed by my INDS journey, is to design and contribute towards systems of care that empower emerging voices while reimagining how arts infrastructure can serve the cultivation of communities. Following graduation, I'm looking to continue working on my non-profit organization that aims to facilitate and advocate for participatory action through creativity and the arts. 

Were you involved in any clubs or organizations? Did you hold any leadership positions? URCAD? URA? Off-campus internships? On-campus research experiences?

  • Founder & Presenter, Retriever's Gallery
Thalia presenting while standing next to the Dehumanize sign
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Awards and Grants:
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Thalia Anora with their research team in the classroom
Click here to learn more about Thalia's journey 
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International Education Week Expo

Wednesday, November 19, 11AM – 2PM : University Center Ballroom

Explore all things global at UMBC in one place, including:

  • Opportunities to study, volunteer, and work abroad
  • UMBC intercultural & language majors/programs
  • "Celebrate Your Culture" Poster Fair presented by UMBC international students
  • World culture performances and games
  • International snacks and drinks provided

Plus, stamp your IEW passport at the Expo to get a free IEW tote bag!


International Student Film Screening & Panel

Wednesday, November 19, 4PM – 7PM : AOK Library Gallery

A SHARED STORY OF DISTANCE (2023)
by UMBC Student Giovanna Orfali (Visual Arts, '26)

"A hybrid short film that captures the connection between a Brazilian mother and daughter living nearly 5,000 miles apart. Blending real voice messages with intimate point-of-view visuals, the film gently explores love, memory, and the quiet ways we remain close across distance."

BRIEF TENDER LIGHT (2024)
by Arthur Musah and Brook Sitgraves Turner

"Ukrainian-born Ghanaian filmmaker Arthur Musah follows four African undergraduates through MIT, America's premier technological university and his alma mater. The students embark on their MIT education with individual ambitions –  to engineer infrastructure in Tanzania; to secure a better life for family in Nigeria; to contribute to post-genocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to advance democracy in Zimbabwe. Their missions are distinct, but fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home.

While their dreams are anchored in the societies they have left, their daily realities are defined by America – by the immediate challenges in their MIT classrooms, and by the larger social issues confronting the world beyond those classrooms. Their new environment demands they adapt. Over an intimate, decade-long journey spanning two continents, students and filmmaker alike are forced to decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves."

 

After the films, hear directly from UMBC international students about their experiences as Retrievers.
This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series.  https://www.pbs.org/pov/


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Chaotic Economies of Confinement: Profit, Dependency, and Extraction in U.S. Immigration Detention 
Disrupting the financial logics of U.S. detention growth

Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 4 - 6pm | AOK Library Gallery

Nancy Hiemstra
Associate Professor
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Stony Brook University

Abstract:
Drawing on two decades of research, this presentation examines how the U.S. detention system operates through—and benefits from—chaos, producing disordered geographies that obscure responsibility and extend confinement. It shows how this manufactured disorder enables and conceals the system's core profit-making logics, where expansion is driven less by policy effectiveness than by opportunities for revenue generation. Companies providing food, medical care, commissary goods, and oversight mechanisms generate income through confinement, creating webs of economic dependency that blur public and private boundaries. The presentation also considers how recent shifts in immigration enforcement are fueling explosive growth in immigrant confinement and concludes by outlining strategies to cut through the chaos and disrupt the financial logics sustaining detention's expansion across the United States

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.   See original event post.  

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Dear colleagues,

We are excited to share a new opportunity from the Scholar Strategy Network's DC/MD chapter: the Academics in Annapolis Cohort, a structured and supportive way for you to contribute to real-time debates during the upcoming Maryland General Assembly session (January-March 2026).

The cohort is designed for academics (defined broadly!) at any level of experience with policy engagement—whether you are new to legislative advocacy or already active in this space. Participants will receive training (as needed), be connected to advocacy partners, and choose from a range of flexible ways to contribute during the session. The time commitment is minimal, but your impact would be much greater.

If this sounds interesting to you, please see the attached overview with more details about the cohort, as well as instructions for signing up [by filling out this short interest form by December 15, 2025]. Please feel free to also share this opportunity with colleagues as it is open to non-SSN members as well.

Please direct questions to:

Elizabeth Rigby
erigby@gwu.edu
Maryland - Washington, D.C. Chapter, Scholars Strategy Network

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Visit the IEW Expo for these feature performances by UMBC Dance and Music students and faculty: 



12:20PM : Trinity Bechtel (Dance, Linehan Arts Scholar, '28) 
Trinity Bechtel


1:15PM: Dr. Seyoung Jeong (Voice) and Dr. Eun Suk Cha (Piano) 
Dr. Seyoung Jeong
Dr. Eun Suk Cha
Thank you to our performers, as well as Brandon Russell and Shanness D. Kemp from the Department of Dance for coordinating these global arts performances. 

Click for more info on the IEW EXPO! 
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Final Week of Pedagogy Study Hall at CADVC

Events: November 19–22, 2025

CADVC at UMBC, 1st floor Fine Arts Building
Free parking, info below

As we approach the closing week of Pedagogy Study Hall,we invite you to join us for a final slate of public programs with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans, featuring guest scholars, civic advocates, and artists. All events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 19, 12-1:30 p.m.
Roundtable on Education History and Policy, Part II
With Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans (live in the gallery), and Davarian Baldwin & Matt Cregor (joining on Zoom)*

Davarian Baldwin and Matt Cregor regroup for the second in a series of compelling discussions on education history and policy, hosted and moderated by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans. The first roundtable in the series, produced as a CADVC webinar, is accessible here.

Large gallery space with a video projection of Tomashi Jackson on the far left wall, a circle sofa seating and an audience of 30 people facing those seated on the sofas. The back wall has a mural of a black text with bullet points illustrating a timeline of significant historic events compiled from conversation and archival research. The title, "Pedagogy Study Hall Tomashi Jackson & Nia K. Evans, October 9 - November 22, 2025" appears at the top in a large red sans serif font. A TV monitor below glows with a person depicted and a camera on tripod is set up in the foreground.

Photo: Opening event with Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans interviewed by Baltimore Beat's Teri Henderson. Photo by Tedd Henn, Courtesy of CADVC

Thursday, November 20, 6–8 p.m.
Community Advocates in conversation with Nia K. Evans of the Boston Ujima Project

Dr. Meleny Thomas, South Baltimore Community Land Trust, and Lawrence Grandpre,  Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, in conversation with  Nia K. Evans, Boston Ujima Project. The Boston Ujima Project is a democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem, with the mission of returning wealth to working-class communities of color.

Saturday, November 22, 1–4 p.m. 
"Talk/Draw" drawing and discussion session with Nia K. Evans, Tomashi Jackson, and Eric N. Mack. DJ: M'Balou Camara

Join a discussion on investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities as reflections of broader civic and economic structures with invited guests. Participants will be invited to draw in response to the conversation, and leave their drawings on exhibit in the gallery.

This program is presented in connection with "Pedagogy Study Hall," a research project, exhibition, and publication by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans exploring the structures that sustain our cultural and educational systems.

This program is sponsored by the Wagner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County, and the Arts+ initiative at UMBC.

More info at https://cadvc.umbc.edu/

About the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC)

CADVC is a College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences research center and art gallery that produces scholarship, publications, and experimental engagements in the fields of art, design, and visual culture.

All CADVC programs are free and open to the public for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

Visitor Information

The CADVC is located on the first floor of UMBC's Fine Arts Building. Admission to the gallery and public programs is free. Daytime metered parking is available in several nearby visitor parking areas. Please visit here for additional information.

Please contact cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188 and specify the nature of your request as soon as possible if you need specific accommodations for this event or to experience any of our gallery exhibitions or online programs.

Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC

1000 Hilltop Circle, Fine Arts Building 105, Baltimore, MD 21250

Gallery Hours:

Sun-Mon, closed

Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm

cadvc@umbc.edu | (410) 455-3188

 

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Sponsored by the Russian Area

Presentation by Professors Kapitoina Fedorova and Natalia Tsuikina of Tallinn University, Estonia.


All are welcome! 


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JUST ANNOUNCED! 


Wednesday, November 19, 4PM
AOK Library Gallery

See the short film "A Shared Story of Distance" by UMBC international student Giovanna Orfali (Visual Arts, '26) before the screening of "Brief Tender Light". More information on the films here. 


"A hybrid short film that captures the connection between a Brazilian mother and daughter living nearly 5,000 miles apart. Blending real voice messages with intimate point-of-view visuals, the film gently explores love, memory, and the quiet ways we remain close across distance."


After the films, join Giovanna and other UMBC international students for a panel on their experience in the U.S. and as UMBC Retrievers. 
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NEXT WEEK: join the Center for Global Engagement at these international events! 


International Education Week Expo
Wednesday, November 19, 11AM – 2PM, University Center Ballroom
  • Opportunities to study, volunteer, and work abroad
  • UMBC intercultural & language majors/programs
  • "Celebrate Your Culture" Poster Fair presented by UMBC international students
  • World culture performances and games
  • International snacks and drinks provided

International Student Film Screening & Panel
Wednesday, November 19, 4PM – 7PM AOK Library Gallery
  • A SHARED STORY OF DISTANCE (2023) by Giovanna Orfali (Visual Arts, '26)
  • BRIEF TENDER LIGHT (2024) by Arthur Musah and Brook Sitgraves Turner
After the films, hear directly from UMBC international students about their experiences as Retrievers.



Global Engagement Brown Bag Series
Various times & locations
  • Passport to Possibility: Demystifying Study Abroad: Monday, Nov 17 – 12PM – Virtual
  • Getting Involved in International Student Recruitment: Tuesday, Nov 18 – 12PM – UC 310
  • F-1, J-1, and H1-B Crash Course: Thursday, Nov 20 – 12PM – UC 310
  • Global Grant Application and Fellowship Support: Thursday, Nov 20 – 12PM – UC 204
  • Intercultural Connection Games: Friday, Nov 21 – 12PM- UC 204


Thank you to our campus partners and advocates for hosting these global events!

Celebrate Global Student Athletes
Sunday, Nov 16 – CEI Arena
  • UMBC Men's Basketball vs. Wagner – 12PM
  • UMBC Women's Basketball vs. Brown – 4PM
Our international cultures- Our Identities: a Culture-giving celebration
Monday, Nov 17 – 7:30PM – 9PM – Harbor Hall Multipurpose Room

Explore Global Internship Opportunities with AIFS
Wednesday, Nov 19 – 12 – 1PM – UC310

Multilingual Tallinn: people and languages in the urban space
Thursday, Nov 20 – 1-1:50PM – FA 459

EPIK Panel: Former vs. Current Teacher Insights
Friday, Nov 21 – 5PM-6PM – Virtual (Registration required)

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Applications due 5pm EST Friday, December 12th.

For the full position description, including information on how to apply: Southwest Partnership Marketing Manager Position Description or visit SWP's website https://swpbal.org/workwithus/


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