CV

portfolio overview

How might we use resources of storytelling and relationship building to generate and locate movements of hope, to create a self-sustaining global network of people?
How do we create an agentic us, who can use their power to overcome the narrative of fear and inaction to create instead a foundation of connection through storytelling?
How might we build on Threads to unite users under a sense of identity and ownership that encourages thoughtful, sustained influence and relationship building over time?
How might we engage the Reels community in immersive content experiences that connect learning and listening?
How might we expand the connections between culinary communities (home chefs, hobbyists, foodies) using existing Facebook features?

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Work featured in

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Created illustrations as part of the award submission, which won 1st place in 2025.
link to program:
https://www.mos.org/events/subspace/living-triggered-life-podcast-fall2024
link to event:
https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/performance-stevie-johnson-fire-little-africa

Teaching Team at Sotheby's Institute of Art

Visual facilitation

This is my thinking process. It is how I take notes, understand information, and also share and record the moments of an event in a tangible way that can be shared with community members and guests.

My visual facilitation work has been featured at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Boston Museum of Science, and the Fires In Little Africa album release at Harvard University. One of my favorite fun facts is that Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has a framed visual facilitation piece of mine from her lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School!

One of my passions is to teach students how to synthesize information into images that resonate with their thinking and learning. I start by tutorial instruction on how to draw basic figures and structures, and scaffold processes that teach them resilience, curiosity, and intention.

Lecture Notes for harvard kennedy school of government
FIres in little africa visual facilitation
THE TRIGGERED LIFE PROJECT X THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE visual facilitation (Boston)
MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS X MARSHALL GANZ VISUAL FACILITATION (NYC)

Letters from my students (Course evaluations)

Oral History Toolkits

Taking on new projects is one of my greatest passions. I love learning how I can apply my creativity and illustration skills to help reach your organization’s goals!

This is University of California’s first oral history toolkit, where they trusted me to create accessible and friendly icons to help community members navigate the oral history making process.

Children’s books & Graphic Novels

The Astronaut's Whale

By Joey Barro
Illustrated a 30 page book based on a children’s poem. This book won the 2020 Mom’s Choice Award.
The Coxswain's Tale

By Vian Nguyen
A story about rowing, based on two oral history interviews from Coxswains on the UCI Men’s Rowing Team. Completed as a project for my UCI Journalism class, Stories from The Sea.
Patsy Takemoto Mink

by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Wendy Mink & Abigial Chun, illustrated by Vian Nguyen
Written and illustrated for the first Asian American History Multimedia Textbook collaboration between The New York Department of Education and University of California, Los Angeles.
https://www.weteachnyc.org/resources/resource/patsy-takemoto-mink/

Oral history & Zine making workshops

My workshops have been tailored to K-12 and university-level students, and are a process of identity exploration, community understanding, and self-expression.