A little about me

I’m a Taiwanese-American researcher + artist based in Oakland.

I create research + art projects that push at the intersections of empirical and creative inquiry. I’m interested in living and working between intellectual inquiry and imagination where “data” is not only collected, but felt, sensed, and shared.

I think of data as something alive, something shaped through participation, experience, and relation. Each act of participation alters the outcome, making the work itself a kind of living methodology.

I see art as instrumentation: a way to disrupt linear thinking, make the abstract tangible, and tell stories that awaken collective memory and future possibility.

Some of the art and creative projects I’m currently working on include Guerrilla Love Letters, Poetic Inquiry as Radical Research, Second/Third—an ethnographic writing project documenting Second & Third Gen Asian American artisans—and Bloodline Prints, visual exploration of my paternal family history through scrolls & screenprints.
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As a researcher, I founded Evaluation Studio, a postcolonial, feminist, and participatory research practice that worked with grassroots organizations, funders, and movements to reimagine how evaluation can center lived experience and upend knowledge creation. Some of this research and evaluation work has been featured in outlets including NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Philanthropy Women, and Prism.

I’m now building new tools and approaches to research and evaluation like data point, designed to support grassroots and community-based organizations in making meaning from their own data in ways that are accessible.

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art + research as rupture and unlearning