A video profile of Eco Femme, a women’s empowerment project in India, for Auroville Village Action Group

Maria Bethania performs in Morocco for the Fes Sacred Music Festival

A look at the world’s energy situation sponsored by the International Energy Agency

A news package exploring undocumented Filipino domestic workers in Paris

Barter Market is a concept design for a community bartering system that would facilitate community building, collaborative consumption, and people empowerment.  Barter Market was one of the eleven winning concepts for the OpenIDEO Challenge to restore vibrancy in cities facing economic decline.

UNITe is the concept for an online and mobile phone networking platform that enables vulnerable immigrant workers in New York City to report and map violations of worker’s rights, obtain job information, gain access to social services, and create a social and professional network amongst themselves for better protection and mobilization.  

UNITe: Organizing Immigrant Workers Through Mobile Phone Networking on Prezi

POTable, a social enterprise idea that would ensure clean water in Uganda while raising awareness of water usage around the world. Branding and website mockup by me. Project collaboration with Katie Finnegan and Jeomar Montelon.

POTable on Prezi

These are three reports I wrote or contributed to during my tenure at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.  The reports discuss the impact of No Child Left Behind on English language learners, the Asian American vote during the 2006 midterm elections, and school restructuring in New York City’s public schools.

Design work for non-profit organizations such as The Posterus Foundation, APIAVote, and Demos.

DANS LA RUE: Paris Urban Youth Culture is a blog I founded that explores hip hop and other forms of youth cultural expression throughout Paris.  It combines travel journalism with ethnography, politics, and pop culture.

I’ve also written reviews of movies and plays for the pop culture blog PinkRaygun.com.