Published Writing

2025 - Tender in the Flames, Godz Rising zine

2022 - Amongst the Weeds: Meditations on Place: An Anthology from the Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab of 2022

2022 - How to Save Chinatown: Preserving affordability and community service through ethnic retail, Berkeley Planning Journal (co-authored with Collyn Chan)

2021 - Beyond Cathay Manor: The Interconnected Tenant Struggles of LA Chinatown, Knock LA (co-authored with Janis Yue)

2020 - AAPIs Connect: Harnessing Strategic Communications to Advance Civic Engagement, AAPIs Connect: Harnessing Strategic Communications to Advance Civic Engagement (co-authored with Alycia Cheng, Silvia R. Gonzalez, EunSook Lee, Vivien Leung, Paul M. Ong, and Jonathan Ong)

2020 - Finding Space (and Myself) in Chinatown, Harvard Urban Review

2018 - Learnings from a Citizen-Led Pop-Up Engagement Exhibit, Journal of Civic Media

2018 - Two-Cities: Kanata/Waterloo... A Tale of Two Islands, Spacing Ottawa

Readings

2025 - Abode Summer Fellows Reading, Online

2025 - Nostalgia: Writers on Longing & the Past, San Francisco, CA

2023 - Wicked Talented Friends, San Francisco, CA

2023 - Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab: Readings from the 2022 Anthology, San Francisco, CA

2022 - Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab: Reading from the 2022 Fellows, San Francisco, CA

Talks 

2025 - “San Francisco’s Chinatown: History and Struggle” for Santa Rosa College ETHST22 Guest Lecture, Online

2024 - Preserving Chinatowns through Grassroots & Economic Strategies Panel, Asian Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP), Seattle, WA

2024 - California Community Land Trust Network - Presentation and Neighborhood Walk on LA Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA

2024 - “San Francisco’s Chinatown: History and Struggle” for Santa Rosa College ETHST22 Guest Lecture, Online

2024 - Local Economies Subsession Panel @ National CAPACD Convening, Chicago, IL

2023 - Chinatown CLT Roundtable Panel @ Canadian CLT Network Summit, Toronto, ON, Canada

2023 - Small Business Anti-Displacement Network Case Studies: Lessons from the Field, SBAN 2023 Conference, College Park, MD

2019 - “Untangling ‘Smart Cities’” for README @ UCLA (UCLA IS Students for Digital Rights), Los Angeles