Over a career spanning three decades, Enid Baxter Ryce has taught at every level — from homeless shelters and juvenile hall to graduate school — and secured millions of dollars in federal, foundation, and corporate funding to bring arts and technology education to children who needed it most. She began teaching college courses at age 22, built the first intercollegiate media studies technology program at the Claremont Colleges, and has been teaching at CSU Monterey Bay since 2006, becoming the first CSUMB professor to be voted Best Professor by the community.
As Co-PI on a $1.3 million NIH grant, she mentored 40 science teachers in arts integration; as a Getty Foundation PST Lead Researcher, she shaped arts scholarship at a national level; and as an Apple seed grant recipient, she made her students early adopters of nonlinear film technology. Her federally funded Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant brought youth media arts workshops to communities without internet access.
She has taught filmmaking in migrant camps, foster care homes, and juvenile hall; led VAPA workshops for teachers across California for 20+ years; and continues to volunteer in her local Title I schools and teach art to military families and to foster youth. She has received many awards for her work in education with technology, from the NSF, Chevron, and many others.
Enid Baxter Ryce · 1990s – Present