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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 design containers for hard conversations.
I hold both an MA and PhD in performance studies, a field that studies real-time engagement and interaction: speech, action, relationships. I apply this lens to organizational dynamics, mutual aid infrastructure, and games to help people rehearse the world they want.
Nothing gets left out, no one gets left behind. 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 importance of being heard and ways to facilitate delicate conversations that move dialogue forward…or let relations end with grace, forgiveness, and generosity.
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 led graduate level workshops on how to build empowering spaces, orient teams toward shared goals, and build adaptive communities. 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.
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.
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.
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.