Frances Grace Mortel (b. 1987, Manila) is an artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. She works as the Cultural Programs Manager for Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane, is a member of Washington Filmworks Equity Committee, serves on the board of Spokane Film Project, and programs films at Spokane International Film Festival. She is currently interested in unmaking and mending—exploring the labor in destruction and care through digital and physical archives—often thinking about displacement and mapping out memories through play and placemaking. Fran lives the Pacific Northwest with her family and is pursuing her MFA at Bard College in New York.