Indaia Whitcombe

Indaia Whitcombe, a 2023 Vision Fellow, is working with Linsey Lee, oral historian and Oral History Curator for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, in the collection of fieldwork and oral history interviews. From this collection, Indaia is producing a series of four to six short documentary portraits for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. This project aims to explore, honor, and give voice to the true ethnic, socio-economic, and experiential diversity of the Island and, in doing so, help grow and sustain the Island’s social fabric and community archive. Circuit Films is assisting Indaia and Linsey with production and editing. Indaia earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociocultural anthropology from Bennington College in 2005 and a Master of Arts in visual communication: documentary storytelling, photography & video from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism in 2014. She also earned an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina’s Department of American Studies’ Folklore Program in 2019.