During graduate school, I participated in the in-house radio station. Since that time, I founded ROUTES RADIO at Cornell University and RADIO FREE HAMPTONS in Sag Harbor, NY.

Rather than an interest in traditional music distribution, the metaphor of a radio is my way of thinking about engaging diverse community and elevating unique voices, across many geographies. My projects under the headings The Virtual: Old & New and Local Global Voices, 2002-2005 are attempts at forming bonds through sound ideas.

My curatorial work, particularly in the exhibitions INTERCESSION and A Sense of Place look at cultural understandings carried by peoples shaped through migrations. INTERCESSION, a photo-based show features contemporary artists focused on displacement, embedded portraiture, and street protest. A Sense of Place takes the literal site excavations of a historical southern California Chinatown as the basis of performative community engagements.

The DESIGN FOR GOOD marathons, three in total across Riverside and San Bernardino counties, aim to uplift the incredible work of nonprofit organizations who clothe, feed, and shelter residents — by bringing them together with pro bono graphic designers. Their sophisticated marketing and branding services are usually not in budgets of struggling nonprofits.

The digital graffiti mural project, produced by Black and Brown youth and printed at Judy Baca’s SPARC Graphics in Los Angeles, grew out of a collaboration between City of Riverside’s gang prevention unit “Project BRIDGE” and the University of California Riverside California Museum of Photography, where I served as Director of Digital Studio and Education Outreach.

All of these community projects I’ve shared carry the theme of weaving cultures, bringing people together to make magic. The Artspace New Haven Weaving Cultures project brought together high school students from Common Ground Urban Farm and Environmental Education Center in New Haven, Connecticut with artists from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany.

Staff shared weaving traditions connected to the diasporic cultures many of the African American and Latinx students come from. These traditions were connected to the contemporary fabrics and fiber-based work of artist Anni Albers. As a culmination of the mutual learning, the team engaged with the public in a weaving demonstration on an 8ft loom at the Open Source Festival 2021.