Obden Mondésir Movies, Biography & Filmography

About Obden Mondésir

Obden Mondesir made his acting debut in Little Pieces, a short film by Traci Mark. A people person, his natural charisma and presence reads through the screen. A quietly powerful performance that communicated familial love without a single spoken word. OBDEN MONDÉSIR is an oral historian who was the former Associate Director of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections and is now the founding archivist at the Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College. He has worked as the Oral History Manager at the Weeksville Heritage Center and the Outreach Archivist at Queens College. At the Weeksville Heritage Center, he spent the last five years leading oral history projects including Meals as Collective Memory and the Black Joy project. At Queens College, he managed the SEEK History Project to extend the documentation and understanding of the SEEK Program, which was established in 1966 and provided assistance to students entering college for the first time.