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Education

2017-2021, BFA, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Spring 2022, Certificate, BEST Youth Worker Training at Health Resources in Action 

January 2024, Graphic Memoir Intensive at the Center for Cartoon Studies

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Teaching Experience

ongoing

Teaching Artist, for various organizations

Boston Public Library, Chinatown and Main Branches - Boston, MA

Asian Community Development Corporation - Malden, MA

Institute of Contemporary Art Teen Program and Wall Talk Program - Boston, MA

Teaching Democracy at Tufts University- Boston, MA

Cambridge Youth Programs, Russell Youth Center - Cambridge, MA

Comics Club, Mosesian Center for the Arts - Watertown, MA

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June - Aug 2025

Lead Facilitator, Summer Leadership Academy at The City School - Boston, MA

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Feb 2022 - Feb 2024

Teen Program Coordinator, Media Makers at Castle Square Tenants Organization - Boston, MA

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Sept 2021-Feb 2022

Youth Program Coordinator, Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation - Brighton, MA

 

June-Aug 2019

Animation Instructor, Charles River Creative Arts Program - Dover, MA

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Artist Residencies

Spring 2025

Chapters of Choice, Urbano Youth Art Project - Brighton, MA

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Spring 2023

STARS Residency, Excel Charter High School - Boston, MA

 

Summer 2020

Residence Lab, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

2024-2026

Ella Baker Fellowship, The City School - Boston, MA

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2024

Collective Futures Fund - MA

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2023

Massachusetts Cultural Council Pandemic Recovery Grant - MA

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2022

California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship - CA

 

2021 

Tufts Presidential Award for Civic Life - Medford, MA

 

2020

Tufts Summer Scholar (advised by Ethan Murrow) - Medford, MA

City of Boston Transformative Public Art: Later Grant - Boston, MA

SMFA Dean’s Research Award - Boston, MA

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Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2024

Half-Life, Unbound Visual Arts - Boston, MA

Kaleidoscope: Queer Visions, Boston Figurative Art Center - Somerville, MA

Community Engagement for Torii: Lot Lab 2024, Now + There - Boston, MA

 

2023

At Home in Chinatown: a Residence Lab Retrospective, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

Call and Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

 

2022

Experience Chinatown Festival - Boston, MA

 

2021

New Narratives: Embodied Identities, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

inPUBLIC, The Design Studio for Social Intervention - Boston, MA

UC Davis noontime concert series - Davis, CA

 

2020

San Francisco Zine Fest - San Francisco, CA

 

2019

Bookworks, Tufts University Art Galleries - Somerville, MA

Verklarte Nacht animation, UC Berkeley, Hertz Hall - Berkeley, CA

Painting and Drawing Annual, 1st prize Painting Award, SMFA - Boston, MA

 

2018

Mapping Worlds, Spaceus - Boston, MA

 

2017

Art / Act: Youth, David Brower Center - Berkeley, CA

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