John Leo De Frank
Adjunct Faculty for Global Humanities
John Leo De Frank is the Assistant Director of Rubin Center for the Visual Arts and adjunct faculty for the Global Humanities Program, teaching courses – Media & Social Justice and Social Justice & Film, Cinema and Rome and the Layers of Rome Study Abroad. Mr. De Frank is a co-faculty and Media Director for the Layers of Rome: Online Educational Resource and Study Abroad Program. As an educator, he has also been teaching in the community for non-profits and collectives in media and citizen journalism.
His arenas include: filmmaking, grant writing, producing, media education and journalism. He is also producer and owner of De Frank Media, which produces commercials, online promo videos, short & feature documentaries & narrative films, academic media and journalism multimedia. Mr De Frank is also a contributing reporter for the New York Times.
In the arena of community building, Mr. De Frank is a member of Movimiento Hunab Ku, a artist collective made up of visual, multimedia, music producers as well as writers, poets and scholars. The collectives mission is to teach culture & heritage through art & entertainment to underserved communities & youth.
