Education
MFA, Media Design Practice, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
BA, Communications, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Work
2024 - Present • Director Communications, Emergent Fund
2020 - 2023 • Strategy & Creative Director, 18 Million Rising
2018 - 2020 • Product Strategist, 18 Million Rising
2016 • Strategist, very nice design studio
2015 - 2016 • Design Strategist & Researcher, Karten Design
2015 • Strategy Coordinator, TBWA\CHIAT DAY\LA
2014 - 2015 • Cofounder & Director of Strategy, HexCare
2013 - 2014 • Junior Strategist, VOKENT
2012 - 2014 • Special Projects Assistant, USC Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
Residencies
2025 • Social Practice Lab Fellow, Level Ground, Los Angeles
2022 • Writer Design Drafts Inagural Cohort, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam & Disegno Journal, Rotterdam & London
2022 • Writer Design Drafts Inagural Cohort, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam & Disegno Journal, Rotterdam & London
2020 • Artist In Residence, Habibi House, Detroit, Michigan (Canceled Due to COVID-19)
2019 • Artist In Residence, Activation Residency, Woodbridge, New York
Exhibitions
Solo
2023 • Making Time, William Grant Still Art Center & One Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2022 • In These Times, Art Core LA, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA,
Group
2026 • Mixed Feelings, brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2023 • Dear Lover / Dear Habibi, LA LGBT Center & One Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2019 • potluck: meet me between san pedro, first, requena and central, Windows Of Little Tokyo, Aratani Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2019 • Art Work For Equity Advocacy Campaign, Creative Reaction Lab x The Novel Neighbor Show, St. Louis
2018 • Compass: Navigating Multiness, Swarthmore
2017 • Works in Progress, SUM, Mexico City, MX
2016 • Works in Progress, Wind Tunnel Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Teaching
TDS-465: Design Futures: Lessons from Science Fiction and Social Justice, ArtCenter College of Design
What lessons can creatives learn from science fiction and social justice movements to help them build better futures? In this course, students will study the connection between futurism, science fiction, and social justice movements. Social movements are not just about fighting against injustice but are also about imagining alternatives to current realities. Together we will look at how past moments from Black, Brown, Queer, and other social justice movements as examples of design and world-building. Students will meet with BIPOC artists, designers, and organizers, to practice hands-on methods of “critical making” and learn how to infuse beliefs and values into the spaces, objects, and systems we design. Site visits include a session in the archive of awardwinning science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler at The Huntington Library. Final outcomes will vary and can include print and digital work, sketching, painting, product design, advertisements, etc. This course is eligible to use toward the Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation
HHIS-349C: Never Again 9066 Artists Against Asian Violence, ArtCenter College of Design
This transdisciplinary studio studies the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, known as Executive Order 9066. In this course students use their technical skills as artists and designers to develop political education materials that inform and invite critical discussion around the topic. Students turned their immersive research – that included field trips, historical discoveries and presentations from scholars, artists and a surviving concentration camp inmate – into visually dynamic artwork, engaging educational materials and a public display that authentically portrayed the past but also connected that civil liberties issue to the present.
This course was supported by funding provided by the State of California through the California Civil Liberties program, administered by the California State Library.
Prerequisite: Must have taken: HMN-100/HWRI-102 Writing Studio, or HMN101/HWRI-101 Writing Studio Intensive, or Pass the Writing Placement Exam
Cofounder + Lecturer, RAD SUMMER SCHOOL
Four weeks of deep dive learning into topics covered in RAD ORGANIZING training series. Modules included 01) theory of change + digital organizing 02) planning + visioning- 03) power mapping -
Cofounder + Lecturer, RAD ORGANIZING
Educational web series and training created in response to the sudden increase of creatives who in the summer of 2020, while eager to spring into action, did not have a relationship with existing movement efforts. We welcomed over 550 attendees from all over the world who showed up to learn foundational organizing skills and workshop creative campaigns.
Co-faculty, PRD-251 - Product 3, ArtCenter College of Design
This is an intermediate level product design course that will focus on human centered design principles by strengthening foundational design skills used in professional practice to generate a product/solutions that improve performance around a task(s) or desired outcome. Students will learn to utilize multiple research methods, critical thinking and trial and error to develop, test and refine product solutions. Heavy emphasis will be on rapid prototyping and role playing testing to facilitate decision making. Students will compare their final solutions to existing solutions in order to identify the benefits and advantages they have developed. Students are expected to document their process and work throughout the term.
Teaching Assistant, TDS Imagining the Future of the Barbie Dreamhouse , ArtCenter College of Design
Imagining the Future of the Barbie Dreamhouse Studio challenged a team of interdisciplinary students from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA to envision innovative forward-thinking ways reimagine iconic Barbie Dreamhouse for 2022 by responding to the cultural and societal needs of children around the world while creatively predicting how people will live, work and play. Students explored the dynamics of play as essential in childhood development through research, noted speakers, and observing focus groups interacting with the current iteration of the Barbie Dreamhouse. Through field exploration, ideation and prototyping, students considered how Mattel could update the Dreamhouse to create a toy that’s fun to play with and will act as the trend maker of tomorrow, incorporating the possibilities of home in the future as well as encouraging the hopes and dreams of all children.
Selected Publications
2022 • “a love letter,” Disegno: The Quarterly Journal of Design #34
2022 • “Linear Time,” The Syllabus Project, Level Ground
2020 • Introduction, amwa cookbook 01:potluck, Vol. 1, amwa, 2020
2019 • “Learning From The Kia’i At Mauna Kea,”, 18 Million Rising
2018 • Reconstructing Practice: Toward an Anti-Racist Art & Design Field, The Antiracist Classroom
Selected Lectures, Panels, & Workshops
2025 • Speculative Futures Seminar Series, Huntington Library, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Level Ground Social Practice Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2025 • Positive Obsession: Butler Scholarship and Creative Process, Level Ground Social Practice Lab
2024 • On Pedagogy and Practice, Social Justice, Speculative Futures, & Science Fiction, AICAD Symposium
2024 • Violent Intimacies in Multiracial Asian American Art, Literature, and Performance, American Studies Association
2023 • Our Future Worlds, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
2023 • Social Justice, Speculative Futures, & Science Fiction, Design For Social Innovation, ArtCenter Designmatters
2022 • Interdependence with Ourselves, Each Other, and Movements, The Collective Power of Communicators: Communications Institute, California Grantmakers
2022 • Imagining Asian American Futures: Building Digital First Community with Art and Technology, Mission Cloud Services
2022 • Media Based Organizing For Impact Campaigns, Asian American Documentary Network, Haverford A-Doc Impact Lab
2022 • Art & Media for Movement Building, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSF), Duke University
2021 • Mixed Race Asian America: A Roundtable of Artists, Teachers, and Activists, Association for Asian American Studies
2021 • Media for the Movement: Building Visual Narratives, Race, Solidarity, and the Carceral State, Harvard University
2021 • Anti Asian Violence Beyond Hate Crimes and Policing, CUNY, AANAPISI Bridge Initiative, BMCC, Praxis Tank, The New School
2020 • Stories That Move, Big City Forum, Big City Festival
2020 • Building an Asian American Feminist Movement: Decolonization and Anti-Capitalism, 18 Million Rising + Asian American Feminist Collective, Building Asian American Feminisms
2020 • Design Strategy for Social Movements, Design and Social Change, University of San Francisco Department of Art + Architecture
2020 • how we fight white supremacy, the free black women’s library la + amwa, Reparations Club, Los Angeles, CA
2019 • Building Community Power: Media Based Organizing as Resistance, Netroots Nation, Philadelphia, PA
2018 • Artivism: Radical Art for Rapid Response Change, Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI
2018 • Smart Image and Social Impact, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2017 • Designing Futures, Mattel Sponsored Transdisciplinary Studio, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Selected Leadership & Community Engagement
2022 - Present • Collective Artist, Level Ground, Los Angeles, CA
2017 - 2020 • Core Organizer, amwa / asian mamas working in the arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 - 2018 • Co-founder, Antiracist Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
Press
2026 • Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence, Anna M. Moncada Storti
2023 • "Living an Abolitionist Life." Anna M. Moncada Storti, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 44 no. 3, 2023, p. 42-67
2023 • “An Interview with Bianca Nozaki-Nasser,” Zeina Baltagi, Level Ground
2022 • “Asian American Feminisms: In Solidarity.” Gender, Sexuality Feminist Studies, Duke, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
2021 • “Best of Counter Spin 2021,” Janine Jackson, Counterspin, FAIR
2021 • “A View from the Field: Fighting Disinformation,” Collette Watson, Free Press
2021 • “How To Use Digital Spaces to Advocate for Others,” Isabeth Mendoza, KQED
2021 • “If Police Made Asian Americans Safe, We’d Already Be Safe,” Janine Jackson, Counterspin, FAIR
2020 • “The Decolonizers,” Jen Wang, Communication Arts
2018 • “Poster Series Pays Tribute to African-American Artists, Educators and Authors,” Mike Winder, Art Center Dot Magazine,
2018 • “Imagining the Dreamhouse for the Future,” Brenda Rees, Designmatters