Geralyn Abinader

After receiving a degree in Film and TV at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU, Geralyn Abinader went to LA to work in the film industry. After about 10 years, she was very dissatisfied with the opportunities for women in the 1980’s. She moved on to work in grassroots political organizations and then taught art and directed plays in a high school in an underserved area south of Central LA. Before she left the American Museum of Natural History in 2005, she had traveled the world making videos for exhibitions. As the Director of Media Production for exhibitions, she contributed to the design of several temporary and permanent exhibitions, produced over 80 video and audio installations, managed a video production team of 8 (producers, writers, various assistants) plus a group of interns and coordinated the efforts of the interactive and animation teams. It was a dream come true. But it got to a point where she wanted to strike out on her own, explore new ways to tell stories, in new places about new things. Over the next several years as the principal of GA Media Group, she parlayed her experience at the American Museum into developing interpretive plans for museums and producing media and interactive experiences for art and history museums, state parks and tourism. Videos and interactives were must haves for every project.