Elisa Barrios

Elisa Barrios is a media educator, artist, and equity-focused community media practitioner at Open Signal in Portland, Oregon, where her work has included digital inclusion programs, staff and producer support, intergenerational media workshops, video production, animation, post-production education, and sustained effort to expand access for communities historically marginalized by mainstream media. Open Signal operates as both a public access station and a media arts organization, and Elisa's work reflects the equity-centered practice that has defined the station's approach to community media since its rebranding.

Her work combines media education with explicit attention to who has access to media tools and whose stories are considered worth telling, treating inclusion not as a program category but as a practice embedded in how the station delivers its services.

Elisa's career at Open Signal reflects the contemporary community media center at its most intentional: a public resource that actively works to serve the communities most likely to be left out of both commercial media and the default open-access model.