Her work meshes personal and collective histories through the exploration of portraiture and cultural landscape. She is currently teaching for the semester at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2013 and her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. Her films have screened nationally and internationally and have been included in Dance on Camera Film Festival New York, Women in Film, Red Cat, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema, Images, Boston Independent Film Festival, and has work at the Belvedere 21 Film Archive in Vienna Austria. Carly has been recognized in 2016 by the City of Los Angeles’ Board of Education for her service to the community in providing arts/film education to under-served communities.