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I am a scholar, organizer, artist, and educator whose body of work is driven by a deep love of community, and a commitment to liberation. For the past decade, I have worked with various organizations, universities, and community projects to advance issues that include education justice, healing justice, transformative justice, immigrant rights, and housing justice.  

As a scholar, my interests and expertise include Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, education justice, culturally responsive education, healing justice, transformative justice, somatic embodiment, and collective healing from racialized trauma. My work draws from methodologies that include qualitative research, ethnography, oral history, and archival research. For several years, I worked as the Research and Policy Analyst at the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools to advance racial equity in public schools locally and nationally. In my tenure, we secured funding from the city to invest half a billion dollars towards culturally responsive education.

As an organizer, I served as the Seeding Change National Fellow for CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, where I helped build campaigns centering and led by working-class Asian immigrants facing the effects of displacement and gentrification in NYC’s Chinatown. I have bridged my in-person grassroots work with working as a digital organizer at Daily Kos through the Kairos Fellowship, where I worked designed municipal and statewide campaigns on immigration, education, and abolition. I also wrote critical and intersectional content: petitions, emails, articles, and social media toolkits for our three million members.

As an artist, I am an award-winning poet who has featured and facilitated my work internationally. I was awarded the Knafel Fellowship to travel to Chinatowns in eight countries around the world, where I used oral histories and poetry to document stories of migration and resilience across the diaspora. Since returning from my travels, I have been invited to curate two multimedia art exhibitions using photographs, oral histories, and archives to highlight stories of Chinatowns around the world. My exhibitions took place at The Pao Arts Center and Pearl River Mart in Boston and New York City, respectively.

At its core, my work is rooted in love and belief in liberation. My body of work lives at the intersections of personal and societal transformation; I believe the changes we want to see in society also need to be embodied within ourselves. My scholarship is premised on making research accessible to communities who hold the expertise but have historically been marginalized and pushed out of academic institutions. I am interested in the ways that research and organizing can work in tandem towards true equity and freedom. I am interested in the ways spreading and practicing art can help free our souls.

If you are ready to work together, you can contact me using the form below to inquire about my availability.

PROJECTS

Below are sample of projects I have worked on.

Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Facilitator's Guide

I co-authored this guide designed for K-12 educators, school staff, parents, and community members to facilitate learning sessions around culturally responsive-sustaining education. It is a guide created by veteran educators continually seeking community with colleagues, parents, students, and communities ready to see education justice come to the fore in our policies and practice.

Culturally Responsive Education Hub (CRE Hub)

I created the CRE Hub in my tenure at the NYU Metro Center, in response to a named need from education justice organizers and researchers around the country: there needed to be a central gathering place of resources that documented our work and efforts to fight for culturally responsive education and ethnic studies across the country. The result is this multimedia website I designed and resourced.

Diverse City, White Curriculum Report 

I contributed to the research and writing of this report that highlights the exclusion of people of color from English Language Arts curriculum in NYC public schools. We analyzed more than 1,200 books across 15 commonly-used curricula and booklists from 3-K and Pre-K through 8th grade, examining the racial demographics of the book authors and comparing that to the demographic composition of NYC public schools. Across all eleven grades, white authors and characters are massively
over-represented.

Read the Full Report here.

Read the Executive Summary here.