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ALT: Queer Asian taking a selfie. Behind them, trees and a blue sky. They wear a plaid collared shirt under an orange sweater under a black puffy vest and a black beanie.
I am someone who deeply values relational ethics, accountability, and ways to stay human in times that can feel inhumane. I hold both an MA and PhD in performance studies, a field that studies real-time engagement and interaction: speech, action, relationships. I now apply this lens to organizational dynamics, dialogue facilitation, and mutual aid infrastructure.
As a queer, transracial adoptee (Korean, raised by a white family), my earliest experiences included family separation and institutional systems that traffic children across borders. These experiences taught me the life-saving importance of being truly heard and ways to facilitate delicate conversations that move dialogue forward.
I began a meditation and mindfulness practice around 2005. Since 2024, I’ve written a weekly newsletter, Light Hive, on relational care amid collapse, emphasizing things like belonging for all—from emotions and people to speculative biology and all of life. Nothing gets left out, no one gets left behind.
As an educator and workshop facilitator, I’ve taught courses at the University of Southern California, Pacific States University, and UCLA. At the latter, I’ve taught graduate level workshops on how to build empowering spaces, orient teams toward shared goals, and build adaptive communities. I've supervised instructors in the nation's largest writing program serving students from vulnerable populations, training educators to build empowering classrooms.
I've partnered with grassroots organizations including the Altadena Wellness Group (delivering trauma care to fire-affected communities), the Downtown Women's Center in Los Angeles, and earned a City Commendation for my work with Project Sister and RAINN supporting survivors of sexual violence.
I believe everything is relational, shifting, and impermanent; adaptive practices are necessary. Therefore, I believe in accountability practices, including agreements, forgiveness, re-integration, or peaceful separation. I help individuals and groups excavate needs and name their wants.
As a QTBIPOC, I believe in both safe and brave spaces. Settling into our own embodied experience is our birthright, and we are stronger together. I build spaces where theory meets practice meets breath for all, excluding none.
Without dharma taught by mentors like Mary Stancavage, I probably would not be alive to write this bio. While I do not have a formal lineage, things like the heart practices, the five precepts, and the eightfold path are core to my being.
I use collaborative storytelling games and worldbuilding exercises—not to escape reality, but to practice imagining futures in the world we have. Play is my method to reclaim our capacity to dream and connect with yourself, your peers, and your environment differently. We cannot create alternatives if we cannot imagine them.