Over the years, I’ve shaped my life around a deep interest in photography. I’ve always valued the human connection that comes with portraiture, but later found myself gravitating into documentary and landscape photography. I’ve enjoyed how the three arenas working in tandem can reveal so much about a particular subject.

As an experienced educator, I often use my background in Ethnic Studies to inform my creative work. One result is Enclave, a body of work that provides a revealing survey of Daly City in the mid-2010s. Leveraging visual language often seen in reportage and landscape photography, the work centers around my family’s experience and frames immigrant imaginaries amidst suburban development.

A follow-up project known as Still Life, completed in 2022, continues that practice. However, contrary to the traversal of physical space in Enclave, the unintentional sequel stays close to home, instead moving with more introspection as my family was forced to confront shelter-in-place mandates enacted due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Onwards—often collaborating with like-minded creatives, scholars, educators, and community advocates—I continue to lean into interests rooted in ethnographic themes around culture, migration, landscape, and home.

  • 2016 Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art. San Francisco Art Institute.

    2009 Bachelor of the Arts in Asian American Studies. San Francisco State University.

  • 2022 Still Life (In Progress)

    2020 Camp

    2019 Mana

    2016 Enclave

  • 2019 Blackboard with Yinshi Lerman-Tan. Stanford, CA

    2017-2018 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts TRUTH Fellow. San Francisco, CA

    2017 Respond! React! Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

    2017 We 'Gon Be Alright: Photographs on Race and Resegregation (with Jeff Chang) at RTSBX Benefit, 111 Minna Gallery. San Francisco, CA.

    2016 Enclave (solo show). Skyline College Art Gallery. San Bruno, CA.

    2016 On Air: A live reading or landmark, gust, and Daly City with Jerome Reyes and Dawn Mabalon. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

    2016 Here with Kearny Street Workshop. Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

    2015 APAture: Future Tense with Kearny Street Workshop. Arc Gallery. San Francisco, CA.

    2014 Decolonizing the Mind, Body, and Soul. Skyline College Multicultural Center. San Bruno, CA.

    2014 Projections. Skyline College Multicultural Center. San Bruno, CA.

    2014 "Dive" with MEnD Dance Theater. Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco CA

    2011 RAW Artists: Unearthed. 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA

  • 2021 Squishy Panda Psychotherapy

    2020 BnD Creations (Creative Products and Jewelry)

    2020 Origami by Eli (Apparel)

    2017 Ala Ebtekar (Artist)

    2017 Jonny Chang (Actor)

    2016 Who We Be: Art, Images, and Race in Post-Civil Rights America. Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University.

    2016 Jerome Reyes (Artist)

    2015 IPE Clothing (Apparel).

    2015 440 Brannan (Apparel).

    2014 Asian American Community Arts Workshop. San Francisco State University.

    2014 Jeff Chang (Author).

    2014 The 5th Element: Hip Hop Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Social Justice. (Conversation with the GZA and Christopher Emdin)

    2014 Hopie + DJ Ry Toast (Musicians).

    2013 Maya Hatch (Musician).

    2013 Shop Sideways (Apparel)

    2013 Dirty Boots (Musicians)

    2013 Style Free (Musician)

    2013 The Good Girls (Collective Style)

    2012 Junot Diaz: A Symposium. Critical Race and Resistance Studies. Stanford University. Stanford, CA.

    2011 Retrofit Republic (Apparel)

  • 2016-2018

    Asian American Studies 218: Asian American Culture

    College of Ethnic Studies

    San Francisco State University

    2018

    Asian American Studies 212: Asian Americans and Mass Media

    College of Ethnic Studies

    San Francisco State University

    2017

    Art 350: Visual Perceptions in Photography

    Social Sciences / Creative Arts Division

    Skyline College

    2014-2016

    Sociology 142: Filipina/o American Community Issues

    Pin@y Educational Partnerships (under the direction of Dr. Roderick Daus-Magbual)

    Skyline College. San Bruno, CA.

    2010-2014

    Asian American Studies: Filipina/o American Experiences

    Pin@y Educational Partnerships (under the direction of Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales and Dr. Arlene Dause-Magbual)

    Burton High School. San Francisco. CA.

    History Coordinator / Workshop Facilitator

    2008-2009

    Filipino American History

    Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavor (under the advisement of Danilo Begonia and Daniel Phil Gonzales)

    San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA.

  • 2017 Guest Lecture Asian American Art from 1950-Present (With Marci Kwon). Stanford University. Stanford, CA.

    2017 CIPHER Learning Community Panel, "For My People: Passion as Social Justice." San Bruno, CA

    2017 AAPA Conference, "Rise in Solidarity: Comradery Through Our Interdisciplinary Efforts, A Call to Action." Las Vegas, NV

    2017 UniPro x SIFA Conference "Baon." Texas A&M University. College Station, TX