Jaelyn deMaría is a Chicana multimedia story producer with more than 20 years of experience serving communities in New Mexico as a journalist. She is currently a faculty member in the Communication & Journalism Department at the University of New Mexico. Jaelyn is a former staff photographer for the Albuquerque Journal and a former reporter for the Rio Grande Sun in Española, New Mexico.

Her research interests are centered on the intersections of intercultural communication and anti-colonial media studies, through a lens of indigenous visual communication. She approaches teaching and research through a service learning and community engagement model.

She currently serves on the advisory board for Generation Justice and as an advisor on the University of New Mexico Publications Board. She is the recipient of the 2018 Sara Belle Brown Award for Community Service, the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, and the Land Grant Studies Fellowship from the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute.