About
I’m a Deaf writer, film curator, and planner/landscape designer from and based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. My primary interests are film, moving-image art, and environmental design across the Asia-Pacific region. My writing can be found in publications such as e-flux Criticism, Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, Screen Slate, Cinema Scope, Design Museum Magazine, and the New York Review of Architecture. I am a strong advocate for disabled inclusion in the arts and across the built environment professions.
I’ve programmed films for the Honolulu Museum of Art, multi.projects, and the Cal Poly Film Production Society. I’ve been a mentor for the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival’s Online Critics and Creators Immersive. In 2024, I served on the Letterboxd Piazza Grande jury at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2022, I was a Documentary Magazine Editorial Fellow at the International Documentary Association. I am a current member of NETPAC and the Hawaiʻi Film Critics Society.
I am profoundly deaf. I wore a unilateral cochlear implant until I was 12, when I had it removed due to chronic ear infections. I do not wear hearing aids. I’m a classically-trained percussionist, and have performed with the Cal Poly Percussion Ensemble and the Hawaiʻi Youth Percussion Ensemble. These days, I’m mostly behind a drumset… I love performing, and don’t do it as often as I should. I also love playing the ukulele.
Photo by Winnie Wang.