Born in Chengdu, China
Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education
Master of City Planning, 2023
MIT, School of Architecture + Planning
Cambridge, MA
M.A. in Civic Media: Art and Practice, 2018
Emerson College, School of Communication
Boston, MA
B.A. in Economics, 2014
Rice University, School of Social Sciences
Houston, TX
Work Experience
Present
- Design Research Lead, Design Studio for Social Intervention
- Artist + Researcher, See You in the Future Collective
- Freelance Designer, studio mqqt
2023
- Artist-in-Residence, Participatory Action Research, Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, City of Boston (since 2022)
- Research Assistant, Data + Feminism Lab, MIT (since 2020)
2022
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VR Production Designer, Choose Your Own Resistance, Columbia University with Rob Eschmann and Barry Pousman
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Instructor, City Lab, Boston Architectural College
- Teaching Assistant, S941 Werewolves, Wanderers, and Laborers: The City at Night with Garnette Cadogan, MIT
2021
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Art Director, Feminist Future(s) Hackathon, MIT Media Lab
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Research Assistant, Memory Atlas of Repair, with Delia Wendel and Tyler Rivera
2018 - 2020
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Civic Designer, Engagement Lab
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Adjunct Faculty, Emerson College
2015 - 2017
- Design Lead, Datawheel
- Gallery Lead, EMW Community Space
2014
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Interactive Developer + Information Architect, Publicis.Sapient
Group Exhibitions
2022
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Intergenerational Storytelling, part of New Narratives, Pao Arts Center
- Boston New Works Festival, hosted by Moonbox Productions, Boston Center For the Arts
2021
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CORES, Digital Soup x 3rdWavvE, Black Math, Boston, MA.
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Unbounded: Transmedia Storytelling @ MIT 2019-2021, MIT Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2020
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New Narratives: Reclaiming Asian Identity Through Story, Unbound Visual Arts, Virtual Exhibition Gallery. if we want it, Art on the Marquee, Boston CyberArts Gallery, Boston, MA (collaboration with Sopheak Sam).
2019
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You must not stand in one place, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA * (collaboration with Sopheak Sam)
2018
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s(t)imulacrum, Emerging Media Lab, Emerson College
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Mosaic of Silence, Huret & Spector Gallery, Emerson College
2017
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Culturalizing Science: Bio Art, EMW Gallery, Cambridge, MA * (collaboration with Hongye Wu)
2016
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thick’ums, EMW Gallery, Cambridge, MA * (collaboration with Hongye Wu)
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Nowhere to Call Home, EMW Gallery, Cambridge, MA * (collaboration with Hongye Wu)
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The People First!, EMW Gallery, Cambridge, MA * (collaboration with Hongye Wu)
2015
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Lives Not Numbers, EMW Gallery, Cambridge, MA * (collaboration with Hongye Wu)
* indicates curatorial project
Invited Talks, Panels and Workshops
2022
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Presenter, Queer-Feminist-Antiracism + Design for the Future, Space Enabled research group, MIT Media Lab
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Talkback, Found In Translation: A Deal 杂音 by Zhu Yi, co-directed by Michelle Aguillon and Tianding He, Pao Arts Center
2021
2020
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Speaker, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University
2019
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Speaker, Dynamic Media Institute, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Speaker, Center for Advanced Virtuality, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Panelist, ACM SIGCHI, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Panelist, Boston Area Research Initiative, “The Smart, Connected Commonwealth: Data-Driven Research and Policy Across the Region” Conference
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Panelist, Emerging Media Graduate Conference, Boston University
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Session Host, Games for Change, XR For Change Summit
Selected Honors & Awards
2023
- Request For Innovation Finalist, Boston Society for Architecture (BSA).
- Public Art for Spatial Justice, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
2022
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Mel King Thesis Fellowship from the Kresge Foundation, Dept of Urban Studies + Planning, MIT.
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Design Grant, Sasaki Foundation.
- Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
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New Work Grant, Collective Futures Fund, Tufts University Art Galleries & The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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Collaborative Production Grant with Lily Xie, MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative.
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Priscilla King Gray Fellow (Summer, Winter), MIT.
2020
2019
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President’s Citation, Emerson College.
2018
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Summer Institute Fellow, Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University.
2017
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Winner in Government & Civil Innovation; Nominee in Technical Achievement, The Webby Awards.
2016
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Gold in Commercial Projects, Information is Beautiful, Kantar.
- Finalist in Graphic Design & Data Visualization, Innovation By Design, FastCoDesign.
Writing
“Between Fires,” Thresholds 2023, (51): 26–29. https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00786.
“Therapeutic virtual reality in prison: Participatory design with incarcerated women.” New Media & Society 2021, 23(8): 2210–2229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444821993131. With Eric Gordon.
"Participatory design of a virtual reality-based reentry training with a women's prison," Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299050. With James Hodge and Eric Gordon.
Press
Leveraging Art and Storytelling to Reinterpret a Location of Crisis