DeAnne Cuellar, co-founder of the Texas Media Empowerment Project (MEP), is an independent media maker, musiciansʼ union organizer (Local 782), and lifelong social justice activist. Based in San Antonio, Deanne is a national leader with MAG-NET, the Media Action Grassroots Network. Her media justice vision includes monitoring representations of marginalized communities; educating around the interconnections of race, gender, class, and sexuality; and sustaining a  community media environment that supports women, people of color, low-income people and other underserved constituencies to access and create music, media and technology.