Here are some activities and talks I have created and led over the past 10 years. I have experience facilitating and teaching for large and small groups of all ages.
- WORKSHOP: Time Travelers Workshop
- oral history + psychotheater exploration of intergenerational healing
- WORKSHOP: Narrative Illustration (youth + adults)
- WORKSHOP: Storytelling through art and food (youth)
- WORKSHOP: Creating amulets of self-interest
- WORKSHOP: Working with Clients (for artists)
- SKILLSHARE: Graphic Notetaking/Illustrated Notes
- SKILLSHARE: Leaf Basketmaking
- SKILLSHARE: Working with Artists in the Movement (for organizers)
- ARTIST TALK: Visioning our Future – Navigating the River of Time
- ARTIST TALK: Arts + Activism or Artist Organizing
- ARTIST TALK: Illustrating the Night Parade – by Jami Nakamura Lin
- + General arts and craft activity instruction
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My ideas and relationship with my identities and art continue to change over time. I share this archive of my speaking and writing with the intention that they be a record of my journey.
- The Night Parade – Interview with Adhy Kim & Jami Nakamura Lin New Books Network, Jan 12th, 2025
- Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice art exhibit highlights the ongoing fight for pretrial fairness Chicago Tribune, Feb 27th, 2024
- Tomo Shibata: How Do We Move Beyond War, Vocalo, Jan 11th, 2024
- Delayed Justice in Illinois, Justseeds, Mar 3, 2023
- Nikkei Organizing w/ Miya Sommers, J Town Action & Solidarity, and Nikkei Uprising – Against Japanism, Jan 10, 2023
- Until We Are Free: Action, Arts, and Activism, Tsuru for Solidarity, Mar 12, 2022
- Transforming Oral Histories: Harnessing the Power of Chicago’s Japanese American Voices, JAMP, Sep 13, 2021 – Kat Nagasawa speaking about our collaboration
- Yōkai Banzai!: Modern interpretations by three Chicagoland Japanese Americans, JASC Legacy Center, Aug 24, 2021
- 9 Artists Explore the Pride and Joy of Being Asian American and Pacific Islander, Yes!, May 28, 2021
- Interview with Mary Doi – Archival Storycorps, Nov 9 2020
- Claiming Our Full Community: Multiracial Families and Identities in Japanese America – Tsuru For Solidarity, Oct 15, 2020
- Japanese Americans Hang Paper Cranes At Cook County Jail To Protest Mass Incarceration And Police Brutality – WBEZ Chicago, June 7, 2020
- Building stronger advocacy for Black Lives Matter within Asian American communities – Prism, May 6th, 2020