Bio
E’jaaz A. Mason is a Lecturer in Earth Systems at Stanford University teaching courses about community-engaged multimedia environmental storytelling. He is also the Co-Founder of Lede New Orleans, a nonprofit fostering community engagement and young adult media production training. A filmmaker, educator, and community engagement specialist, Mason was a member of the 2023-2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford. From 2015 to 2020, he taught film and digital media in New Orleans public high schools, founding an award-winning film program at New Orleans Charter Math & Science High School. Mason has received numerous awards for his work in youth education. He was a cinematographer for the 2022 HBO/Time Studios documentary Katrina Babies and is the Story and Impact Producer for the 2025 documentary The River. He is also directing two documentary films: Black Suit: Sewing [Her]story, which highlights the importance of Black women in New Orleans’ Black Masking Indian culture and an untitled film about environmental and societal challenges facing residents of the Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood in San Francisco.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Earth Systems Program
2024-25 Courses
- Community-Engaged Multimedia Environmental Communication
EARTHSYS 285 (Win) - Environmental Communication Practicum
EARTHSYS 293 (Win, Spr) - Environmental Communication Seminar
EARTHSYS 295 (Spr) - Environmental Storytelling
COMM 177M, COMM 277M, EARTHSYS 177M, EARTHSYS 277M (Win) - Multimedia Environmental Communication
COMM 177G, COMM 277G, EARTHSYS 192, EARTHSYS 292 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (3)
- Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems
EARTHSYS 197 (Spr) - Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems
EARTHSYS 297 (Spr) - Environmental Communication Capstone
EARTHSYS 294 (Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems