Award: SPJ Detroit 2026 Excellence in Journalism Sojourner Truth Reporting on Racial Justice Award, fourth place

So excited to win fourth place in the Society of Professional Journalists Detroit 2026 Excellence in Journalism Sojourner Truth Reporting on Racial Justice Award! And to celebrate all of our AAJA MI journalists and the great work they are doing https://www.spjdetroitevents.com/

Poetry Reading: "A Floating World" with IS/LAND at KYLYN Fest May 15

 I'll be performing a new poem as part of a new performance piece, "A Floating World" with IS/LAND Asian Pacific American performance collaborative

KYLYN Festival | Dance Performance: A Floating World, Friday May 15, 2026: 6:30pm to 7:30pm, Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room. A Floating World is a movement-based performance from AAPI Performance Collaborative IS/LAND grounded in the belief that there exists an ephemeral “floating world” of ancestral consciousness and connectivity. We brush against this floating world in moments of sudden, yet inexplicable, familiarity - lucid dreaming, tasting something new that instantly feels known. These indecipherable encounters are surprising and confusing, yet they stir a profound, unconscious realization of a deeper reality that we cannot consciously understand. Intense emotional experiences, particularly grief, also evoke this connection to the 'floating world,' leaving us raw and destabilized. This event is part of the KYLYN AAPI Arts & Culture Festival. https://aadl.org/node/668218

Here are all the Kylyn events and AAPI events at AADL and CLUSTER Museum https://aadl.org/aapiheritagemonth and https://www.kylynfest.com/