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Collectives
Co-Founder – The Asian Canadian Living Archive (2019 – Present)
Founder – Project 40 Collective (2015 – Present)
Magazines
Managing Editor – LooseLeaf Magazine (2015 – Present)
Assistant Director, Educational Arm – Asymptote Journal (2018)
Managing Editor, Production – The Offing Magazine (2017 – 2018)
Poetry Reader – Transcendence Magazine (2015)
Work
Program Supervisor – Codes of Contact Initiative (Present)
Education & Industry Programmer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Present)
Grant Writer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Present)
Member Services – Artscape Daniels Launchpad (2019)
Reel Ideas Producer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2018)
Festival Coordinator – Lights Dance Festival (2018-2020)
Consultant – Content Writing – AskforTask (2018)
Critical Essayist – Poetry.SG (2018)
Festival Coordinator – Regent Park Film Festival (2017)
Transcript Editor – Global Lingo (2017-2019)
Publicist – In Sundry Languages with Toronto Laboratory Theatre (June – July 2017)
Festival Director – VIBE Arts Fest (Jan – May 2017)
Creative Consultant – Sweet Esc Dessert Cafe (April 2016 – September 2017)
SSAT Instructor – Ivy Global (September 2016 – March 2017)
Marketing Coordinator – Attila Glatz Concert Productions (September – December 2016)
Programmer – Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Toronto (2015-2016)
Publicity Agent and Blogger – The Puritan (2015)
Copy Editor – The Culture Trip (2015)
Social Media Intern – SKETCH Working Arts (2015)
Communications – Emerging Young Artists (2015)
Translation
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee – primary source material (Letter correspondence)
Facilitation
2020
Blackout Poetry Facilitator – Tea Base, Year of the Mall Rat Festival (2020)
Narrative / Writing Facilitator – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Career Development Facilitator – Supporting Newcomer Access Project, Planned Parenthood (2020)
2019
Zine 101 Guest Instructor (2 classes) – Equity Course, OISE, University of Toronto
Program Manager / Facilitator – Diasporasian Futures, Space-Making Stream
“Stories in Motion” Stop-Motion Facilitator – Home Made Visible
2018
Blackout Poetry Facilitator – XYZ: Zines from Analogue to Digital, Cedarbrae Library (2018)
2017
Writing Facilitator – Medi(t)ations: A writing & zine program, Multi-Faith Centre at UofT
Zine Writing Facilitator – ZIPE x Toronto Art Book Fair
Workshop Facilitator – The Diasporasian Writer Talkeratives Series
2016
Workshop Facilitator – The Diasporasian Writer Talkeratives Series
Poetry Workshop Facilitator – Too Close To Home, Writing Group at George Brown College
Workshop Facilitator – the Re-Imagining Series – Multi-Faith Centre at UofT
Panels / Boards
TAC / TAF – What is Success? Metrics, Impact and Creative Practice Panelist (2021)
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (UofT) – b2B Panelist (2021)
ArtReach Toronto – Juror (2021)
Get Some Lit Mag Love at Growing Room Festival – Panelist (2020)
Ontario Arts Council – Juror (2018)
Riverdale Hub Gallery Advisory Committee (2017)
Poetry Judge – MIST Toronto Poetry Competition (2016)
Awards / Grants
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization (2021-2022)
Canada Council for the Arts, Public Outreach with Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2021)
Ontario Arts Council, Media Arts Projects with TACLA (2020-2021)
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Strategy Fund with Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2020)
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development with jabs (2020)
Toronto Arts Council x ArtReach, Phase 2 with Project 40 Collective (2020)
Ontario Arts Council, Literary Creation (2020)
Toronto Arts Council, Visual and Media Arts with Project 40 Collective (2019)
Toronto Arts Council x ArtReach, Phase 1 with Project 40 Collective (2019)
Ontario Arts Council, Publishing with Project 40 Collective (2017)
Art Starts Platform A Micro-Grant Recipient with Project 40 Collective (2017)
Art Starts Platform A Micro-Grant Recipient with Project 40 Collective (2016)
Press
Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine, Lit Mag Love x Room Magazine, Vancouver (2019)
Support Your Local Collective Radio, Episode 78 Feature, Toronto (2018)
“Meet the Toronto artist creating a safe space for Pan-Asian creatives” with Emerge Magazine (2017)
“Lattes with Ladies: Jasmine Gui” with Hot Pepper Latte
Education
Ryerson University, Continuing Studies: Practical Grammar and Punctuation (2017), Visual Skills in Publishing (2019)
University of Toronto, Master of Art (English/Diaspora and Transnational Studies) (2016)
University of Toronto, honours Bachelor of Art (2014)
University of Toronto, Bachelor of Education (Primary/Junior) (2014)