PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Spoken Word Performances
5 Corners Bar (Minneapolis), The Alchemist(NYC), APIA Poetry Summit (Boston), APIA Poetry Summit
(NYC), Artists Against War, Asian American Writers Workshop(NYC), Asian Arts Initiative’s 10year
celebration (Philadelphia), Asian Arts Initiative’s Grand Reopening (Philadelphia), Asian Arts Initiative’s Rap Series (Philadelphia), Audre Lorde Project(Brooklyn), Astraea Lesbian Foundation (Brooklyn), Bar 13 (NYC), Bam! @Hyde Park Theater (Austin), Bamboo Girl Zine Benefit (NYC), Blue Stockings (NYC), Bodies in
Motion (NYC), Bowery Poetry Club(NYC), Brecht Forum (NYC), CAAAV Celebration (NYC), Café Mundi,
Celebration of Audre Lorde (NYC), Clemente Soto Velez Center for Art (NYC), Cooper Union (NYC), Drop
the Rock (NYC), DRUM Benefit, Equal Ground (Sri Lanka), Equal Ground Benefit (NYC), Embora
Movement Wellness Center(Brooklyn) , Estro Flow(Austin), Estro Slam (Austin), Eye Sheds a Dream Flow (Minneapolis), Exit Art Gallery (NYC), Flowas (NYC), Fluid Movements (Minneapolis), Free David Wong
Celebration (NYC), The Delancey (NYC), Gabby n Mo’s (Austin), Galapogos Arts Space (NYC), GAPIMNY’s 10th year Anniversary Celebration(NYC), Gay Day(Austin), Judson Memorial Church, Leslie /Lohman Art Gallery(NYC), Le Petit Versailles (NYC), Lesbians of Color Against Violence(NYC), Limbo (Brooklyn), Lincoln Center(NYC), the Loft (Minneapolis), Louder Than a Bomb(Chicago), Manavi (New Jersey), Mental Graffiti (Chicago), Mumia 911(Austin), National Youth Poetry Slam(Chicago), Nightingale’s(NYC), Nuyorican Poets
Café (NYC), Palestine Nakba 50 year Commemoration at United Nations (NYC), Poetic Healings (Austin),
Political Playtime (NYC), Outpost (Brooklyn), Pop Slam (NYC), Rest of the Rainbow (Austin), Rivers of Honey(NYC), Soul Salsa(NYC), Texas Book Festival(Austin), Theater for the New City(NYC), Third World Within 9-ll (NYC), Tsunami Relief for Sri Lanka (NYC), Women Outloud, WOW Café (NYC), YSS Benefit (NYC) (and more!)

University Performances:
Brooklyn College, Bryn Mawr, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Cornell University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, Mt. Holyoke College, New York University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Oberlin College, Old Dominion University, Pomona College, Swarthmore, SUNY-Cortland,
University of California Berkeley, University of California Davis, University of California Santa Cruz,
University of Chicago, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Connecticut (Stamford), University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Pennsylvania, University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka), University of
Texas-Austin , University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Yale University (and more!)

Conferences/ Festivals:
APIA Women’s Collegiate Conference, Asian American Studies Conference, BAAD!’s Out Like That Festival, Brave New Voices, Color of Violence II Conference, East of California’s Asian American Studies Jr. Faculty Retreat, ECASU Conference, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center: MujerCanto Festival 2003(San Antonio), Frontera Long Fringe Festival, Frontera Short Fringe Festival Kriti Festival, Lincoln Center’s La Casita,
Looptopia Art Party (Chicago), MAASU Conference, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, National Asian American
Theater Festival, National Performance Network’s Annual Meeting, North Star Fund’s Annual Meeting, Oberlin’s Biennial APIA Conference, Prism: Beyond Visibility! Queer of Color Conference, Rebellious
Lawyers Conference, Sager Symposium, South Asian Literary Festival, South Asian Women’s Literary
Festival 2004 & 2007, Sri Lankan and Queer Conference, Student Encuentro, Thinking About Prisons:
Theory and Practice, University of Texas’s Women Studies Conference, Women of Color Film
Festival (California), Women of Color Film Festival (NYC), Yale’s Solidarity Conference (and more!)

 

 

 

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