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A collaboration with San Francisco Poet Laurate Kim Shuck for her Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship reading series, the Fire Thieves. A curated intergenerational and intersectional poetry event featuring Bay Area poets of Japanese ancestry.
An anthology from this project to follow.
Photos by Kristen Murakoshi Photography
I created and facilitated a day-long community-centered design thinking workshop for 100 entrepreneurs in the The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative accelerator program.
Nike partnered with OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation portfolio, host the Design with Grind Circular Innovation Challenge to inspire the creation of products that improve the lives of the people who use them, while also reducing waste at the same time. The future demands a transition to a circular economy—a world in which materials can be used and reused at their highest potential.
Nike Grind is a palette of premium recycled materials recovered from used footwear and manufacturing scrap. We challenged the world to design and prototype promising new uses for Nike Grind materials.
Read more about the Design with Grind Challenge Winners.
Redefining Self-Love is a writing workshop I designed and facilitated for the The Cosmos, a community founded to help asian women flourish and thrive. Redefining Self-Love supported asian women across generations peel back the layers of love through the lenses of identity, healing, and belonging. The workshop diverged and converged across individual reflection and collective sharing.
The Feast is a global dinner series across 20 countries creating abundance through authentic sharing and support. As a lead facilitator and producer of The Feast San Francisco, I designed and facilitated dinner experiences building community across local leaders through topics such as play and spirit.