oral history

I guide communities through the process of building, conducting, and sharing their own community oral history projects

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Hunter College Asian American Studies Oral History Project

Hunter College Asian American Studies Program & AANAPISI Project

a community-university partnership that trained 12 students to learn about and document the founding of AAS at Hunter with Asian American pioneers, resulting in an archive consisting of 22 full audio interviews, excerpts, transcripts, and archival documentation. 

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Landmarks Storytelling Project

Think!Chinatown

an ongoing audio exploration of memory and place to visit and remember our community members’ own personal landmarks in Chinatown.

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I build my practice around the belief that we are all storytellers. I train people to tell, document, and share their own stories through oral history workshops.

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Oral History Training & Archiving Program
Self Evident

a free, digital oral history toolkit to create your own oral history with a loved one, Story Archive, community listening events, and a network of collaborative partnerships

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The Stories All Around Us Workshop

Oral History Association

a workshop on oral histories as collaborative art and history-making with our loved ones. Bringing together art, music, and oral history, we hear stories from loved ones and collaborative reimaginings of these personal histories.

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I talk with my neighbors a lot with Think!Chinatown. Then, we share their stories back out through art, workshops, and events to get folks celebrating and remembering even more together.

I also love Asian American, Chinatown, and community histories, so I talk a lot with people who have laid the foundation for me for decades.

I also talk with my family and friends a lot about music, and we create sonic histories together.

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An Ode to Our Generations:
Remembering the Music and Memories of Yellow Pearl and Basement Workshop
Think!Chinatown

a special revival featuring multi-instrumentalist and songwriter treya lam performing songs from Yellow Pearl, intertwined with the memories and hopes for the future from across generations of artist-activists in Chinatown of the past and today.

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Art of Storytelling
Think!Chinatown

animated stories that bring us into the everyday lives of people who have long called Chinatown home, bringing together Chinatown elders and young Asian American artists to reimagine how we collectively remember and honor the stories of our communities.

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