Gina Santi was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.  She graduated in Industrial Relations from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas. She studied photography at the Universidad Santa María, Caracas. She obtained her MBA from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and continued her photography training at the Washington, D.C. School of Photography.  She earned her Education degree and her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Northern Arizona University. She teaches Spanish and Anthropology at the university level, and in her capacity as an educator and administrator she has worked, lived in, and traveled in many countries.

 

Gina has held many award-winning solo and collective exhibits in the United States and abroad. She is an associate photographer at the prestigious Phoenix-based organization TEOE – Through Each Other’s Eyes, an active member of the American Society for Visual Anthropology, the American Anthropological Association, and INFOCUS, the photography branch of the Phoenix Art Museum.