User:Migdiachinea
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The user page of Migdia Chinea.
Migdia Chinea-Varela (aka Migdia Chinea) is a Cuban-American Screenwriter/Actress. The daughter of Cuban exiles, a prisoner of conscience father and a teacher mother, she was raised in South Florida. She was the first Latina to join the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW). She was also the founder of the WGAW Latino Writers Committee and was its chair for many years.
She is the writer of numerous screenplays for television and film in various genres, e.g., comedy, drama, action-adventure and science fiction. As a role model for disadvantaged children, she was involved for eleven years with The Litttle Girls of East Los Angeles and has taught creative writing.
She has been a panelist in more than twenty entertainment-related seminars and has been a published essayist/journalist, (e.g., Newsweek, Daily News, Los Angeles Times).[1] In 1988, she received the 1988 City of Los Angeles Human Relations' Award for Volunteer Work.
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Chinea graduated Cum Laude from UCLA in 1999 with BA in Political Science/Pre-Law and Classical Civilization.[2] She has been choreographed in jazz and ballet by Doug Rivera since she was a teenager and continues to dance weekly.[3]
On October 21, 1997 she testified before a Congressional Committee in Washington on the subject of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity -- Equal Pay for Equal Work in Hollywood [4]. Chinea lives in a Historically-designated and registered Spanish Colonial Revival House in Glendale, California[5].
