About this Event
Join Auntie Kristina Wong and friends for a family friendly book launch! At this reading and conversation event, the writers will discuss the inspiration behind the book, share passages and reflections, and open the floor for audience questions and connection. Special youth guests will be present to read and even a few Auntie Heroes!
About the authors:
Kristina Wong is an award-winning performance artist, guest comedian on late-night television, writer, and former elected official in Los Angeles Koreatown. She's the first Asian American Woman to be named Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama for her solo show Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. The show detailed her real-life leadership of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers led primarily by women of color who shipped tens of thousands of free homemade masks to vulnerable communities during the pandemic.
Theodore Chao is an assistant professor in the Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education at California State University, Fullerton. His research on mathematics storytelling within Asian and Asian American communities has been funded by Fulbright and the National Science Foundation. He co-produced the Radical Cram School web series and co-hosts the TODOS Podcast on Asian American Math Identity. Dr. Chao has been a STEM Education consultant for Penguin Random House, McGraw Hill Education, Heinemann, the Educational Testing Service, and the ACT.
Anna Michelle Wang co-wrote and co-produced the Radical Cram School web series, contributing as music director, lyricist, and puppeteer. She is a multifaceted artist and entrepreneur who narrated the Monster Diary series for Familius Publishing on Audible; wrote, produced, and performed the thirty-four-episode puppet home renovation web series The Hanna Rochelle Show. She is a mother to three middle-school and high-school children.
Jenessa Joffe is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, producer, and mom whose kid-focused content serves up humor to inspire empathy--kind of like sneaking extra veggies into pizza sauce if that pizza could dismantle systemic inequality. Jenessa earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory. She co-wrote, co-produced and directed the Radical Cram School web series, and now runs her own production company.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, United States
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