Carhianie J. Vargas Padín is a writer at the Her Campus UPRM chapter; her topics of interest include all-things film, pop-culture, and community engagement.
Aside from her work at Her Campus, she’s a Research Fellow at UPRM’s Oral History Lab (OHL) where she engages in projects aimed at preserving Puerto Rican (hi)stories through oral history, film, and archival work. She’s also co-produced two documentaries: Nuestro pedazo de tierra/ Our Piece of Land (2023) and Todavía estamos aquí/ We Are Still Here (2023).
She is an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, majoring in English Literature with minors in Writing and Communication, Art, and Film.
When she’s not balancing her studies with her extracurriculars, she spends her days watching films, reading everything from novels to manga and/or fanfiction, and feeding her addiction to YouTube shorts and K-pop—all while aspiring to write the next best story/screenplay.
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