Mira Costa High School

Name: Michael Hernandez
Joined SRL: 2013

Michael Hernandez is an award-winning cinema and broadcast journalism teacher who founded the Media Arts program at Mira Costa in 1999. He received his BA in Communication from Santa Clara University and his MFA in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University. He is a member of the Journalism Education Association and is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google for Education Certified Innovator.

Mr. Hernandez believes in empowering his students to become digital storytellers who create work that will affect change in society. To that end, he advises the nationally award-winning Mustang Morning News broadcast journalism program, and has taken students to Cambodia and Cuba to make documentaries.

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