Katy Mejia is a jack of trades within the media landscape. It started back in 1998 when she won an award at SXSW for a website she designed for her all-female DJ crew. She moved to NYC in 2003 from Austin and continued DJing and making music while working as an Art Director and freelance creative for such diverse clients as VH1.com, MTV.com, Comedy Central, Carols Daughter (natural beauty products), Live Nation and most recently HBO. While living in Brooklyn, she forged lasting connections with unique musicians, teaching artists and filmmakers, merging her passion for music and film with her husband, Joél Mejia, with Things Are Changing Productions, LLC. They released the feature documentary film, TIME IS ART (2015) which screened worldwide and is available on the Amazon Prime and Gaia platforms. Starting in 2017, she switched gears to be more directly in service to youth and began teaching video, music production and Adobe Premiere certification to immigrant students in the Bronx, placing them in paid digital media internships. In 2022 she moved to the Hudson Valley, where she and her husband continued growing their own superfoods using hydroponic methods with Mi Oh My Farms, a cooperative of farmers growing microgreens and medicinal culinary mushrooms they founded in 2020. She manages and creates content for social media accounts with large audiences, using her 15+ years of video editing, writing, and graphic design experience. She is currently producing a podcast and yearly Youtube Livestream about indie film for the Woodstock Film Festival. Her latest documentary film, BIRTH FROM THE EARTH funded by Hudsy features her midwife who guided the birth of her second daughter. The film won best documentary short at MOM Film Festival 2023, runner-up for best short at the Denton Black Film Festival and screened at the 2024 Race Forward conference.
