I'm a cultural organizer, artist, & oral history educator homebased on Lenape land in NYC's Manhattan Chinatown. 

I take on my childhood name yiuyiu 瑶瑶 as a guardian & DJ historian for Chinatown Records 華埠錄音, a community effort to celebrate the sonic tapestry of music, memory, & history that comes with inherited family record collections. 

As a community-taught & -powered DJ historian, I have the most fun bringing the music out of the archive onto the streets & into the living rooms we share ~ all alongside my family, neighbors, & so many loved ones, who have taught me so much. Chosen to be a DJ by the neighborhood, I especially love training up our next generations of DJ historians of all ages to bring the music to life with us.

I think anyone can be a storyteller, historian, DJ, artist ~ and our home courts are our living rooms, dinner tables, & neighborhoods. I lead oral history projects and training with Think!Chinatown and so many more community classrooms, so we can all learn to look to our loved ones to pass down, learn, & celebrate our histories together. 

& I'll always be a dancer first ☆