Culture + Community

My work in culture and the arts is about storytelling through collaboration and curation — designing community conversations, producing public programming, co-creating on participation-based projects and promoting socially engaged design and art through writing, radio, and film.

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    Meyer Mural of Hope

  • "The Space Between Us" Exhibit

  • Equitea Talk on Rural

  • "When There Were No Borders"

CURRENT + PAST WORK

Memoir + Autobiographical Writing — Lewis Latimer House Museum New York | 2024
Fellow in writing workshop focusing on themes of race and immigration.


”Our Wayfinding” forthcoming
An interdisciplinary, design-led project series exploring how people connect culturally to places they inhabit and the role that specific local markers of a city play.


New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2024
Panelist to award funding for community-based projects by Queens artists.


Flushing Town Hall   New York | 2023
Panelist to award funding for community-based projects by Queens artists.


Asia Pacific Forum (APF) Radio New York | 2012 - Present 
Co-producer/co–host/collective member — Current contributing producer for podcast. Researched, produced and hosted show for public affairs radio program covering news, culture and politics on the Asian diaspora on NY’s WBAI/99.5FM station (2012-14).


Women of Color Peer Learning Circle 2021 - 2022
Founder + Moderator — Created online collective for women across various fields to practice peer learning, coaching, feedback and experimentation and to incubate creative projects. 


“Food for Thought” + “Equitea” Portland, OR | 2018 - 2020
Curated learning series for staff at Meyer Memorial Trust on race, rural and other equity-related themes. Co-designed and led sessions including “I Don't Get This Rural Thing in Oregon: Demystifying & Reinterpreting Rural” and “Am I Middle Class?”


“The Space Between Us” Portland, OR | 2019
Curated portion of academic exhibit featuring mainly POC artists, activists and organizations using powerful storytelling, promoting listening and conversations and unearthing personal histories to create connections and depolarize communities in Portland and beyond.


Radicle Magazine Portland, OR | 2019
Managing editor — Curated writings and artwork, offered the theme “The Space Between Us” and contributed piece “When There Were No Borders” to academic design magazine.  


Center for Asian American Media San Francisco, CA | 2009
Screening committee member for the annual SF International Asian American Film Festival.

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