Initiatives

Co-Founder & Managing Editor, 2020 – Present
choa magazine

Community Director, 2017 – 2020
Project 40 Collective, Toronto & Canada

Communications Assistant, 2016 – 2017
Project 40 Collective, Toronto & Canada

Work

Senior Digital Marketing Executive, 2023 – Present
Mediacorp, Singapore

Korean-English Translator (Freelance), 2020 – Present

Content Operations Manager, 2023
Edisen & Netflix K-Content, Singapore

Content Coordinator, 2021 – 2023
Edisen & Netflix K-Content/The Swoon, Singapore

Platform Manager, 2020
so-far, online publication on art & tech, Singapore

Marketing Coordinator, 2017 – 2019
Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto

Education

Masters of Arts
Arts & Cultural Leadership
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Honours Bachelor of Arts
Sociocultural Anthropology, Art History
Writing & Rhetoric Minor
University of Toronto, Canada

Creative Projects

Co-Creator/Host, 2021
YAM Not Potatoes Podcast
with Jing Tey, Abby Ho

Creator, 2019
Creator to Creator II, Project 40 Collective

Project Manager, 2019
Wear We Came From, Project 40 Collective
with Stephanie Xu, Isabelle Docto

Co-Facilitator, 2018
NameSake

Co-Organizer/Moderator, 2018
A P40 Mini Con, Project 40 Collective
Mini conference for young and emerging Asian creatives, consisting of professional development talks and community development panels

Co-Program Curator, 2018
burden(some), Art Starts’ Arowana Program & Project 40 Collective

Music Supervisor, 2018
“Wave Hands Like Clouds,” short film by Jennifer Su
music by postmoderndisco, Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M)

Co-Facilitator, 2018
Personal Belongings: An Artistic-Archival Workshop for CONVENIENCE exhibition in partnership with Myseum of Toronto, 187 Augusta, Project 40 Collective

Creator, 2017
Creator to Creator, Project 40 Collective

Press

“Movement and Stillness: Interview with choa magazine”
Canthius Magazine, 2022

“choa magazine, Building Something with Intention”
The Puritan Magazine: Issue 52, Winter 2021

“Creating a Digital Magazine for Korean Stories”
Inside Out with Jane Z.: Episode 11, 2021

Episode 7, Not Seen On TV Podcast
CJRU 1280 AM, 2017

Research Experience

5th Annual MEDUSA Graduate Student Colloquium
University of Toronto

• Paper: “Defining Korean Hip-Hop’s Authenticity through Blackness and Globalization”

Hemispheric Institute Graduate Student Initiative 5th Convergence
York University

• Workgroup: “Unsettling Transnational Relationality: Indigeneity and Solidarity Across Border”

Richard Charles Lee: Insights Through Asia Challenge
Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs

• Project (Ethnography): “Visualizing Elders’ Engagement with the Digital Age in Shanghai”

Ethnography of the University
Ethnography Lab, University of Toronto

• Paper: “Visibilizing the Invisible: Communications Work(ers) at the University of Toronto – Deconstructing the Tension between Power and Freedom in ‘The U of T Brand’ Production”

International Course Module at Oa’hu, Hawai’i
Anthropology Department, University of Toronto

• Course: “Diversity: Critical/Comparative Studies of Indigeneity, Multiculturalism and (Settler) Colonialism”
• Ten-day participant observation and service learning around topics of environmental protection and sustainability, immigration and Indigeneity, military occupation and tourism industry

Other Research Papers

Embracing Blackness Through Koreanness: Analysis of Damunhwa in South Korea Through Media Presence of Sam Okyere and Han Hyun Min

“Fake” News, Digital Media and Political Ideology: Analyzing Linguistic Rhetoric of Pro-Impeachment and Pro-Park News

Anthropology’s Ignorance of the Relationship between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People of Colour: Analysis of the Discipline’s Historical Understanding of Race and Culture