As a fellow with the Center for Communication Difference and Equity (CCDE), I spearheaded a project to bring the oral storytelling project StoryCorps to the University of Washington. The theme of the event was experiences of racial discrimination in Seattle. My doctoral work includes organizing the oral history event, conducting follow-up interviews with participants, editing their recorded conversations, organizing listening parties to bring these conversations to wider publics, and creating an online space where students and community members can listen and share these clips.
My dissertation project engages in community-based research that seeks not only to add to our understanding of how personal oral stories circulate online, but also how digital storytelling can be used within local spaces to build community and counter-public consciousness among marginalized populations. I am interested in the political potential of digital storytelling as a means to facilitate listening across difference and as a community building tool, as a way for individuals to find solidarity through the act of listening and sharing.
The Power of Storytelling
Becoming an Officer
Performing Snow White
Black Power in the Ivory Tower
I'm Not the Submissive Asian Woman You Think I Am
A Soda Deferred
Let's Talk about the Angry Black Woman
Winter Listening Party 2018
Finding My Voice, Fighting for My Place
The Limits of Citizenship
Learning to Code-Switch: Voices that Mirror Two Worlds
Drinking from the Forbidden Fountain
Recognizing and Reckoning with Implicit Bias
Spring Listening Party 2018
Activism through the Ages
Checkmate: Building Confidence, Building Community
Finding Affinity
Building Generational Knowledge