 Kotz Cornejo became the first Latina full professor of film/media production in the US in 2014.She has taught at Emerson College in Boston since 2001.She is the recipient of the 2007-08 Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award, a 2012 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a 2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship and a 2014 Cine Qua Non Screenwriters Fellow.