I am a landscape architect, urban designer, visual artist, and writer. This site is an evolving documentation of my growth.
I am a landscape architect, urban designer, visual artist, and writer. This site is an evolving documentation of my growth.
Impressions and aspects of views.
Five years of branding for Hindsight, an urban planning conference that focuses on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.
An art-based inquiry project to make visible discount stores, a ubiquitous but oftentimes invisible part of city landscape.
13+ years experience at the intersection of urban landscape, resilient infrastructure, and equitable design.
Design projects partnering with community groups.
A virtual exhibit and zine project to re-imagine the dominant narrative on Chinatowns as places of consumption, illuminating the “hidden” materials, labor, and economies that enable New York’s manufacturing and construction industries.
The layered histories of Black and Asian communities in the Queens neighborhood.
Vignettes of landscape and cities. Architectural gems, attractions, everyday spaces encountered in my walks and travels.
Seeds and Memory delves into food as a secret language of the Asian diaspora, a symbol of sisterhood, a source of community enrichment, and a counterforce to the undervaluation of culinary traditions, challenging food’s role in shaping racial and cultural hierarchies.
Engage community in collective public spaces centering on community creative practices.
Together Resilient is a women-led organizing effort to marshall creative community-centered financial, organizing, and design strategies to uplift and support those most at risk who are taking action to build resilience in their communities.
Striations. Mud. Shore. Ice. The texture of hard lines and fluid edges.
A creative and practical guide that prepares young and underrepresented planners for their entry into the planning profession.