BIO

Ina Adele Ray (aka Adele) is a media-maker of mixed-race Vietnamese and Scots-Irish American descent. She has worked in film and video production in both the commercial and non-profit worlds (from broadcast tv to social media) as a producer, director, and editor for over 20 years to support her passion for new technology, experimental media, and personal storytelling. Adele dedicated 3 years to building out an in-house production studio for the San Francisco-based company, MyHealthTeam, as their Executive Managing Producer until Feb 2024. She has since founded a budding production and post-production boutique, Mind Ray Media (MRM), LLC. Through MRM she is currently working as a contractor for Re-Present Stories Studio based in Oakland, CA.

​Adele enjoys working on projects that are dynamic, mission-driven, and/or have a distinct creative vision and style. Past clients include: Ambassadors Circle, One Bay Creative, The Computer History Museum, Google, D’Wayne Wiggins from the Soul/R&B group, Tony! Toni! Toné! and several more.

Adele directed and produced a short VR documentary called "The Red Room Project" that showed at select venues on the east and west coast of the U.S. and in Asia from 2018-2020 including Facebook Immersive VR Film event at FB headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, Busan International Film Festival's VR Forum (S. Korea), ​

In 2021, she began producing and co-hosting a podcast, Asian Heart Mind Body Collective, with Integral Coach and Transformation Facilitator, Danielle T. Duong. Both she and Danielle are students in the Braided Wisdom Leadership Training Program with their teacher, Carol Cano.

Adele has an MA in Media Studies from the New School University (New York, NY). Her areas of study are documentary, experimental, and narrative film production, as well as film, cultural, and media theory. Adele has also served as a Part-time Assistant Professor, teaching film and media courses at the New School University and has also taught at NYU, Parsons School of Design, and Eugene Lang College. From 2014-2020 she taught production and theory courses at Berkeley City College. Resume link.

Interview: “Entanglements: A Conversation with Mediamaker Ina Adele Ray” Migration Mapping, 2021
Presentation: "Melding VR Documentary Cinema & Live Hip-Hop: Processes & Collaboration" [Published in the Busan International Film Festival 2019 VR Forum manuscript]
Essay: "Vietnamese at the 'back drop' and the Invisible Cultural Producer" (Published in Hyphen Magazine and Center for Asian American Media: blogs)

Affiliations:
- Board Member, Re-Present Media
- Advisory Board Member, Film, Animation, TV at Chabot College
- Founder, East Bay Documentary Filmmaking Support Group
- Member, Brown Girls Doc Mafia
- Member, Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network