Modern Asian Diaspora Experiences - MADE is part of my midlife creative journey to reconnect with past collaborators and to connect with Asian Diaspora creatives and cultural leaders to co-create the future of how we center humanity and honor the nature of being human, which is to error, and course correct.

As a 1st generation Taiwanese-American with strong traditional cultural home values growing up in a society that operates under deeply ingrained white supremacy narratives, I understand the challenges of navigating the conflicting narratives of being Asian in American, and returning to ancestral communities.

Thankfully as a pre-teen and young adult I found the power of youth counter culture communities, and diverse mentors that strived to be anti-racist and did their best to provide support as I processed my world. As a young adult I found community through arts and activism at King County cultural organizations such as the Old Fire House to the CMA (Ceramics and Metal Arts Building) at the University of Washington, which served as a launching point for my work as a teaching artist, cultural worker and arts administrator.  I am blessed with a diverse and resourced network of creative collaborators who are excited to be connected with the next generation of creatives who are starting their journeys in a cultural landscape that a younger version of myself would find as unrecognizable.

MADE is open to all, but targeted for young culture shifters, who like myself, may struggle with navigating in our modern world.  I am grateful for this moment in time when the internet is brimming with information and opportunities to curate and create content to support the developing needs of the Asian Diaspora and its intersections. Especially for the next generation of kids and young adults growing up and needing to connect with their rich cultural background, but might not have any support to do so.

Becoming Guanyin

a series of in-person and virtual workshops that support your individual journey of revelations, within a context of a network of Asian Diaspora women that understand that narrative change requires a larger container to manifest the return to a matriarchal society that centers love and expanding the light in others.