Maria Fong is an artist and youth worker from Berkeley, CA who moved to Boston in 2017. Maria designs and facilitates workshops for young people and adults using popular education, creative youth development, and interactive, collaborative opportunities for making. They are inspired by organizing around housing justice, ethnic studies, and mental health crisis response without police. While they have created animation, printmaking, drawings, paintings, and public art, Maria’s current practice focuses on zines, comics and curriculum design. As a Teaching Artist, they have worked with the Boston Public Library, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Urbano Project, Castle Square Tenants Organization, Asian Community Development Corporation, Mosesian Center for the Arts, and Pao Arts Center.