Amy Serrano

Presently, Serrano is at work on a transmedia work and book, Saudades: An Anthological Contemplation on Persons, Places, Identity, and Time." which seeks to mine the experience and nuancical complexity of saudade in collaboration with visual, literary, and musical artists. The book will be released in the Spring/ Summer of 2020.

Serrano is a Senior Fellow of the Human Rights Foundation in New York; a Fellow of the National Hispana Leadership Institute in Washington D.C.; a board member of Voz de Mujer, a women’s empowerment and leadership organization based in Texas; an Advisory Council member of the Faulkner Society’ in New Orleans; a member of the Spanish Embassy's Young Hispanic Leader’s Association in Washington D.C.; and a founding Board member of Ambassador Armando Valladares' non-governmental organization, Human Rights for All.

In 2018, she began writing a manuscript for a book, Mr. Moret and I: The Story and Legacy of My Unexpected Friendship with New Orleans' Last Known Tuskegee Airman. It is one part memoir (Serrano's) and one-part biography (Moret's). It reveals Moret's first-hand, contemplative recounting of history and race in America, while also functioning as Serrano's retrospective reflection of the meaningful friendship that emerged as a consequence of the great blocks of time spent at home, on the road, and up in the air to document his life for the film, Airman: The Extraordinary Life of Calvin G. Moret.

In 2017, she edited the Into the Woods Anthology and wrote the foreword.

In 2016 she was invited to write the foreword to photographer Diego Quiros' fine art photography book, Alchimie Photographique.

Since 2013, Serrano has been working on a film titled Airman: The Extraordinary Life of Calvin G. Moret, based on the life and legacy of Louisiana’s last known Tuskegee Airman. This is a historical and continuing work in progress.

In late 2013, Serrano released her first book of poems, Of Fiery Places and Sacred Spaces, which deals with the poetics of place and space. Her poems have been published in Latino Stuff Review, Ella Magazine, MiPo Gallery, Into the Woods, The Peauxdunque Writers' Alliance Annual Anthology, and Poets and Artists Magazine.

In 2009, Serrano was commissioned by the Louisiana Division of the Arts to produce a photographic essay on a new population. After spending considerable time with the Garifuna people, Serrano wrote and produced From Punta to Chumba: Garifuna Music and Dance in New Orleans, which explores the role of females in the Garifuna community as cultural tradition bearers. From Punta to Chumba was first published by Louisiana's Living Traditions. Currently, artifacts, photographs, and the essay are on tour in Louisiana's State Museums. As of 2013, the exhibit was intended to circulate around the State of Louisiana for the next 5–10 years.

In 2007, Serrano relocated from her hometown of Miami, Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana to focus more on her writing. She continues to reside and write in the Greater New Orleans Area.

Amy Serrano (born November 8, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American filmmaker, author and human rights activist. She is most well known for her critically acclaimed documentary, The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers on the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic. She has also produced and directed several documentaries for PBS. She is a women and children's rights activist.