A triennial event, the Southeast Asian American Studies Conference was originally scheduled for Spring 2020, but was postponed to July 8 – July 9th, 2021. I was selected to facilitate a community workshop, but due to personal unforeseen circumstances, made a very difficult decision to withdraw. I hope to offer this workshop in the future in a different context.

As part of my work as an Urban Futures Lab Fellow with Public Matters, I worked on The Chicharrón Chronicles. An archival and story-gathering project that focused on the intersections of Latinx and Filipinx identities and cultural legacies of Spain, these stories came from longtime residents, business owners, and artists with connections to Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown. The stories were recorded, mixed, and edited by the Urban Futures Lab Fellows, and the content became the foundation for creating three mobile audio walking tours of the neighborhood.

The Stilt House Zine is a publication of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Organization (CALAA). During my time as their Project Development Coordinator (2017-2018), I facilitated the conception and creation for this publication and its first issue around resilience, Pheap Thon (ភាពធន់): Stories From the Diaspora.