“Emanuela Quaglia is a passionate, enthusiastic, equity-minded and compassionate educator. Her mission as an educator is to close equity gaps and engage in equitable practices. She has worked in the digital art and photography industry and has taught a full range of digital art courses to students with various backgrounds and learning styles. With 15+ years of successfully working in the digital art industry, she was an instructor at CSU East Bay for Project Impact, and while she served students with special needs, she also supported a racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. In 2015, Emanuela started working for the San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD). She successfully led face-to-face and online art classes, camps, workshops and special community events for various programs such as Community, Continuing & Corporate Education (CCCE) and Bay Area Pathways Academy (BAPA).

In 2020, Emanuela started as an adjunct Assistant Professor for the Digital Art & Animation program at Cañada College. During the challenging time of the pandemic, she strongly supported students and colleagues in transitioning from face-to-face instruction to online and facilitated faculty training like Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QOTL) and Advanced Techniques Online Methods (ATOM). She supported students and colleagues with private tutoring sessions when needed.  Emanuela completed course reviews based on the OEI rubric and created online courses that met CVC-OEI requirements. During the last couple of years, she also worked as faculty advisor and mentor for Menlo Studio, a successful digital art internship program offered to students at Cañada College.

Emanuela earned her Master of Science degree in Education with a concentration in Online Teaching and Learning at Cal State East Bay in 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree (BFA) in Multimedia, Photography and Traditional Fine Art from Cal State East Bay and three Associate Art degrees in Web Design, Digital Video and Broadcasting & Electronic Media - TV Production from College of San Mateo.

In 2022, Emanuela earned the position of full time tenure-track Professor in the Digital Art and Animation program at Cañada College. Since 2021, she is also became faculty mentor and advisor for Menlo Studio, a successful internship program that gives opportunity to work in the digital marketing industry to many student assistants who completed digital art classes in the colleges of SMCCD.

Awards winner, Emanuela’s personal artwork has been exhibited internationally, and it bridges cultural geography, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences that combine writing, photography, audio, video, installation and community engagement.”

— Extract from “Cañada College, Office of the President Updates”, 2022