About

Micah Pegues is a graduate of NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. While at NYU, Micah studied Visual Culture, Media, and Postcolonial Theory and minored in Science and Society (STS). The title of her colloquium was “Decolonizing and Re-enchanting the Visual World”.

She began her college career at NYU Tisch Film & Television program and soon realized her interests were broader than the film world. This led her to Gallatin where she began studying visual culture and other media. 

Micah created Polychrome Mag., a magazine for creatives of color, during her freshman year and has helped it grow ever since as editor-in-chief and creative director. The first issue was more than fully funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign completed in February 2018.

Micah was an art department intern at BUST Magazine and the social media coordinator for NYU Gallatin during the Fall 2018 semester. She was one of the six winners of the i-D Point of You competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, Micah interned with Spindle Magazine as an editorial intern, assisted photographer Heather Hazzan, produced and co-hosted a podcast with her friend Hanna Kazemi for WNYU Radio called Rich Soil, and worked with Local Wolves as a contributing photographer. In 2018, Micah participated in a panel on Disrupting the New Media Narrative as a member of the media collective the Mag Mob and spoke at the NYU Diversity Festival as its student honoree. 

During her role as Cross-Platform Content Associate at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Micah produced a variety of educational videos, public programs, social media clips, and exhibition videos, in person and virtually, and during the pandemic. In close creative collaboration with the education team, Micah co-developed Learning Labs and Design at Home videos, the latter was picked up for PBS interstitials. Together with video manager Chris J. Gauthier and Christina L. De León, Micah co-produced Mud Frontiers: Architecture at the Borderlands traveling to Colorado in 2021 to film the third act.

Micah is currently the Social Media Video Producer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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