Micaela Suminski

Occupy Sandy: Ten Years After the Storm

Occupy Sandy: Ten Years After the Storm focuses on Occupy Sandy, an anarchist mutual aid disaster relief effort organized by Occupy Wall Street veterans in New York City and beyond after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. For the project, Micaela conducted twenty-eight in-depth interviews to build a publicly accessible oral history archive. She then turned those interviews into a feature-length documentary film. This project explores the contours of mutual aid, collective memory, archives, and uprisings. What does it mean to remember a social movement ten years later, together?


Micaela Suminski

In her graduate studies at Gallatin, Micaela focused on Critical Disaster Studies and documentary storytelling. She particularly enjoys place-based documentaries and first-person films. During her time at Gallatin, Micaela also proudly served as the Graduate Assistant of STAC and as a shop steward in GSOC UAW Local 2110. A former trivia host and aspiring neighborhood bartender, Micaela hopes to someday run her own (unionized) joint.