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.

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)

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.

My work has been shared at:

visually illustrating pedagogy

words by Alaina Segura