About
I’m a Deaf writer, film programmer, and planner/landscape designer from and based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I write about film and moving-image art across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as issues in landscape architecture and urban planning. My writing can be found in publications such as Film Comment, MUBI, 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 and the Cal Poly Film Production Society, and was a programming intern with the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival. In 2022, I was a Documentary Magazine Editorial Fellow at the International Documentary Association. I am a member of 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 any hearing aids. I’m a classically-trained percussionist, and have performed with the Cal Poly Percussion Ensemble and the Hawaii Youth Percussion Ensemble. These days, I’m mostly behind a drumset. I also love playing the ukulele.
Photo by Winnie Wang.