Elenita Makani O’Malley is a queer Filipina and Irish American storyteller from the Bay Area. Elenita holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from Georgetown University and a Master of Arts in Museum Anthropology from Columbia University. By day, she works as a science communicator, crafting videos that demystify complex topics about the planet. Her video work has been featured in exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, Stanford University, and more.

As a media producer, she works start-to-finish, meaning that she researches and pitches video ideas, writes scripts and interviews subjects, operates cameras and lighting, and edits final deliverables. An expert at working on slim and scrappy communications teams, Elenita has also developed marketing strategy to deliver communications to diverse audiences, managed social media strategy and content development, and is a mean project manager.

Outside of work, you can find her practicing martial arts, digging through archives, and cataloguing the best egg tarts in Oakland Chinatown. Her latest obsession is producing her first documentary film, “Oakland Ilokana.”