About

I am an artist, scholar, and educator working at the intersection of artistic practice, creative inquiry, and education research. My work explores art as a way of knowing, making, relating, and imagining possibilities with others. 

My scholarship brings arts-based educational research into dialogue with storytelling and community-engaged inquiry, approaching community as a space of knowledge creation. At the centre of this work is community resilience through creative making: how artistic encounters create conditions for dialogue, relationships of care, collective meaning-making, and renewed ways of relating to one another and to place. 

Increasingly, my research explores movement and relational encounter: how stories, memories, and forms of knowledge move across places and cultural contexts, and what becomes possible when situated perspectives meet. Through artful inquiry, I explore how these encounters can deepen our understanding of community, belonging, and our responsibilities to one another. 

This orientation also shapes my teaching, mentorship, and public engagement. I see education as a creative and relational practice that cultivates imagination, critical inquiry, and openness to different ways of knowing and becoming. 

I am an Assistant Professor of Arts Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. I grew up in Taiwan and now live and work in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.