EDUCATION

MA in Public History, concentration in Digital Humanities & Media Studies
Temple University   |   2017 – 2019
Full Merit Scholar

BA in History & Sociology, minor in LGBT Studies & Data Analysis, summa cum laude
Temple University   |   2014 – 2017
Phi Beta Kappa

Certificate in History & Medieval Studies
University of Cambridge   |   2016

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EXPERIENCE

Program Manager
COSACOSA art at large, Inc.   |   January 2019 – Present
  

Founder & Co-Lead
Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab   |   July 2021 – Present

Production Manager
TZ Production Company   |   April 2018 – August 2019

Program Manager for Gender & Sexuality Inclusion
Temple University   |   August 2017 – May 2019

Curatorial Liaison, National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution   |   May 2018 – December 2018

Public Programs Researcher
National Endowment for the Humanities   |   May 2018 – August 2018

John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archival Associate
William Way LGBT Community Center   |   May 2017 – December 2017

Archival Researcher, The Center for Public History
Temple University   |   August 2015 – May 2017

Intellectual Heritage Advisor
Temple University   |   September 2015 – May 2017

Digital Collections Assistant
Historical Society of Pennsylvania   |   May 2016 – December 2016

Exhibitions Researcher & Producer
OutHistory.org   |   March 2016 – October 2016

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SERVICE

Operations Manager & Community Organizer
Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team   |   September 2014 – Present

Creator & Organizer
The T4T Project   |   April 2021 – Present

Project Manager & Nonfiction Editor
Asian Pacific Islander Transmasculine Anthology   |   October 2019 – September 2020

Community Advisory Board Member
Connecting Latinos en Pareja   |   April 2018 – December 2019

Civics Coordinator
The School District of Philadelphia   |   January 2016 – June 2017

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PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

"God is a Trans Woman: A Brief History of the Guan Yin, Media, & Folklore in the Digital Age." Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance: A Trans of Color History Zine 1 (2024): 16-17. Edited by GVGK Tang, Alejandrina M. Medina, Delan Ellington, fabian romero, Joshua K Reason, and Nathalie Nia Faulk. Published by the Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab.

"Pleasure by Proxy: A Multimedia Essay." FLAT, Issue 0.2: Touch. Edited by Chandler McWilliams, Dalena Tran, Leslie Foster, and Don Elder. Published by the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts & Carnegie Mellon School of Art, 2021.

"Sexuality." The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook. Edited by Modupe Labode, William S. Walker, and Robert Weible. Published by the American Association for State and Local History and the National Council on Public History, 2019.

"Sex in the Archives: The Politics of Processing and Preserving Pornography in the Digital Age." The American Archivist 80, no. 2 (2017): 439-452. (Reprinted in "Erotic Consumption: Sex, Desire, & Propagation." Public Annotations. 2021.)

"Virgin-Mother-Whore: Gender & the Rule of Queen Mary I (1516-1558)." Perceptions 3, no. 2 (2017): 25-28.
 
"Activity/Passivity in Dream of the Red Chamber: Homoerotic Sensibility & Sexual Hegemony in the Mid-Qing Dynasty." Perceptions 3, no. 1 (2017): 11-13.

ESSAYS

"Project Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore." History@Work. October 17, 2023.

"We need to talk about public history's columbusing problem." History@Work. June 25, 2020.

"Reading the Rainbow: The Origins of the Pride Symbol." O Say Can You See? Stories from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. May 31, 2019. (Reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine. June 8, 2021.)

"The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic." Notches. July 10, 2018.

"Tongzhi: 'Queer' Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover." Notches. May 29, 2018. (Reprinted in Pink Paper. June 15, 2019.)
 
"Project Showcase: Still Fighting For Our Lives." History@Work. January 15, 2018.

"Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome." Notches. November 14, 2017.
 
"Project Showcase: The Semiotics of Sex." History@Work. July 14, 2017.

COMMENTARIES

"Book Review: Exhibitions for Social Justice." The Public Historian 43, no. 3 (2021): 120-123.

"Jackie Shane" and "Roxanne Gay." African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

"Gather, Connect, Amplify: The Importance of Grassroots Community Building & Dismantling White Middle-Class Public History." Public History News. May 27, 2020.

"Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation." Public History News. June 13, 2018. (Co-authored by Shakti Castro and Patrice Green.)

"150 years ago, this queer activist invented sexual identity to stage a public protest." Medium - Editors' Pick. July 31, 2017.

CREATIVE WORK

"The Lovers." the t4t project – issue two (2023): 18.

"Antiphon." the t4t project – issue one (2022): 25.

"Roots." Shifting Traditions. Berlin: Transnational Queer Underground, 2020.

"What (Is) It Like…?." OUR_STORY. Berlin: Transnational Queer Underground, 2017.

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PRESENTATIONS

PANELS

“Realities of Archival Diaspora.” Rare Book School-Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage (Online). November 6, 2024.

"Women, Gender and Sexuality: Agency and Representation in Monumental Culture." Contested Histories: Creating and Critiquing Public Monuments and Memorials in a New Age of Iconoclasm (Online). Swansea University, Wales, June 28-29, 2021.
 
"Gender and Memory." 1st International Film Studies Conference: Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory (Online). University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 2-4, 2021.

"Decolonising Intellectual History." Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons: Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements (Online). University of Cambridge, England, March 26-27, 2021.

"Transnational Flows: Historicizing Race & Hybrid Space in the 21st Century." World History Association. San Juan, PR, June 27-29, 2019. (Organizer)

"Subaltern Histories." Scholars of Color Conference. Philadelphia, PA, April 12-13, 2019. (Chair)

"Queering Sexual Citizenship: Transnational Perspectives." International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Justice. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 8-9, 2018.

"Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins." American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, November 8-11, 2018. (Organizer)

"Transatlantic Narratives, History & Memory." Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 14-15, 2016.

ROUNDTABLES

“Trans Media, Trans Mediums: Diasporic Desires in South/East Asian Texts,” Trans Joy, Pleasure, Freedom (Online). Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab, August 28-29, 2025. (Organizer & Facilitator)

“Best Practices for Healing Arts & Community Engagement.” National Endowment for the Arts. Washington, DC, January 24-26, 2024.

"Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance: Trans of Color Archives & Storytelling." Queer History Conference (Online). San Francisco, CA, June 12-15, 2022. (Organizer & Facilitator, Sponsored by the National Council on Public History)

"Commemorating the Stonewall Uprising: Transnational and National Retrospectives on Movements and Monuments." American Historical Association. New York, NY, January 3-6, 2020. (Co-Organizer, Sponsored by the Committee on LGBT History and World History Association)

"Reclamation & Resistance: The Making of Grassroots QTPOC Histories." Queer History Conference. San Francisco, CA, June 16-18, 2019. (Organizer)

"Histories of Our Own." National Council on Public History Conference. Hartford, CT, March 27-30, 2019. (Organizer & Co-Facilitator)

"Stonewall @ 50." National Council on Public History Conference. Hartford, CT, March 27-30, 2019. (Co-Organizer)

"Teaching Queer Themes and Experiences in World History." World History Association. Milwaukee, WI, June 21-23, 2018.

"Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation." National Council on Public History Conference. Las Vegas, NV, April 18-21, 2018. (Organizer & Co-Facilitator)

TALKS

“Myth & Memory as Method: Seeking Trans-Queer Asian America.” Asian American Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, April 13, 2023.

"Gather, Connect, Amplify: QTAPI Testimony & Grassroots Community Building." National Council on Public History Conference (Online). March 18-21, 2020.

"Queer History, Core Texts and Contexts." Intellectual Heritage Department, Temple University. Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2018.

"We Are Everywhere? On Decolonizing the Queer Canon." Temple Early Atlantic Seminar. Philadelphia, PA, September 12, 2018.

"AMA: Sex, Stigma, and Historiography." r/AskHistorians (Online). March 30, 2018.

"The Third Sex? Queering Historiographies of Gender & Sexuality." Women in Core. Philadelphia, PA, March 16-17, 2018.

"The Semiotics of Sex: A History of Queer Identity Politics." National Council on Public History Conference. Indianapolis, IN, April 19-22, 2017.

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HONORS/AWARDS

Trans Studies Grant (for Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab) 2024-2027, Mellon Foundation
Public Impact Projects Grant (for Kin/Folk/Lore) 2024-2026, National Endowment for the Humanities
 
Public History Project Grant 2023, Committee on LGBT History
Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (for Kin/Folk/Lore) 2022-2023, PA Humanities

Global Youth Service Day Mentor 2022, Youth Service America

Teaching Artist Micro-Grant 2021, Bartol Foundation

Historical Research Associates, Inc. New Professional Award 2020, National Council on Public History

Adams Research Award in American History Spring 2019, Temple University
Zimring Prize for Academic Freedom 2019, Temple University

Adams Research Award in American History Fall 2018, Temple University
Adams Research Award in American History Spring 2018, Temple University
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Travel Award 2018, Temple University
Zimring Prize for Academic Freedom 2018, Temple University
Graduate Student Travel Award 2018, National Council on Public History
Graduate Student Travel Award 2018, World History Association

Adams Scholarship in American History 2017, Temple University
Baron Memorial Award in History 2017, Temple University
Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship Grant 2017, Temple University
Feinstone Memorial Award for Educational Leadership 2017, Temple University
Public History Diversity & Inclusion Advocacy Award 2017, Temple University

Adams Scholarship in American History 2016, Temple University
Gilmour Scholarship for LGBT Advocacy 2016, Temple University
Means Study Abroad Scholarship 2016, Temple University
Vaughn Award in Sociology 2016, Temple University
Wachman History Scholarship 2016, Temple University

Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015-2016, Temple University Libraries

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MEMBERSHIPS/COMMITTEES

National Council on Public History
                   Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility Committee (2017 – 2023)
                   Long Range Planning Committee (2018 – 2023)

Society for Queer Asian Studies
                   Board Co-Chair (2020-2022)

Committee on LGBT History
                   Program Committee, Queer History Conference 2022

EDUCATION

MA in Public History,
concentration in Digital Humanities & Media Studies
Temple University   |   2017 – 2019
Full Merit Scholar

BA in History & Sociology,
minor in LGBT Studies & Data Analysis, summa cum laude
Temple University   |   2014 – 2017
Phi Beta Kappa

Certificate in History & Medieval Studies
University of Cambridge   |   2016

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EXPERIENCE

Program Manager
COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
January 2019 – Present
  

Founder & Co-Lead
Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab
July 2021 – Present

Production Manager
TZ Production Company
April 2018 – August 2019

Program Manager for Gender & Sexuality Inclusion
Temple University
August 2017 – May 2019

Curatorial Liaison, National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
May 2018 – December 2018

Public Programs Researcher
National Endowment for the Humanities
May 2018 – August 2018

John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archival Associate
William Way LGBT Community Center
May 2017 – December 2017

Archival Researcher, The Center for Public History
Temple University
August 2015 – May 2017

Intellectual Heritage Advisor
Temple University
September 2015 – May 2017

Digital Collections Assistant
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
May 2016 – December 2016

Exhibitions Researcher & Producer
OutHistory.org
March 2016 – October 2016

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SERVICE

Operations Manager & Community Organizer
Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team
September 2014 – Present

Creator & Organizer
The T4T Project
April 2021 – Present

Project Manager & Nonfiction Editor
Asian Pacific Islander Transmasculine Anthology
October 2019 – September 2020

Community Advisory Board Member
Connecting Latinos en Pareja
April 2018 – December 2019

Civics Coordinator
The School District of Philadelphia
January 2016 – June 2017

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PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

"God is a Trans Woman: A Brief History of the Guan Yin, Media, & Folklore in the Digital Age." Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance: A Trans of Color History Zine 1 (2024): 16-17. Edited by GVGK Tang, Alejandrina M. Medina, Delan Ellington, fabian romero, Joshua K Reason, and Nathalie Nia Faulk. Published by the Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab.

"Pleasure by Proxy: A Multimedia Essay." FLAT, Issue 0.2: Touch. Edited by Chandler McWilliams, Dalena Tran, Leslie Foster, and Don Elder. Published by the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts & Carnegie Mellon School of Art, 2021.

"Sexuality." The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook. Edited by Modupe Labode, William S. Walker, and Robert Weible. Published by the American Association for State and Local History and the National Council on Public History, 2019.

"Sex in the Archives: The Politics of Processing and Preserving Pornography in the Digital Age." The American Archivist 80, no. 2 (2017): 439-452. (Reprinted in "Erotic Consumption: Sex, Desire, & Propagation." Public Annotations. 2021.)

"Virgin-Mother-Whore: Gender & the Rule of Queen Mary I (1516-1558)." Perceptions 3, no. 2 (2017): 25-28.
 
"Activity/Passivity in Dream of the Red Chamber: Homoerotic Sensibility & Sexual Hegemony in the Mid-Qing Dynasty." Perceptions 3, no. 1 (2017): 11-13.

ESSAYS

"Project Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore." History@Work. October 17, 2023.

"We need to talk about public history's columbusing problem." History@Work. June 25, 2020.

"Reading the Rainbow: The Origins of the Pride Symbol." O Say Can You See? Stories from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. May 31, 2019. (Reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine. June 8, 2021.)

"The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic." Notches. July 10, 2018.

"Tongzhi: 'Queer' Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover." Notches. May 29, 2018. (Reprinted in Pink Paper. June 15, 2019.)
 
"Project Showcase: Still Fighting For Our Lives." History@Work. January 15, 2018.

"Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome." Notches. November 14, 2017.
 
"Project Showcase: The Semiotics of Sex." History@Work. July 14, 2017.

COMMENTARIES

"Book Review: Exhibitions for Social Justice." The Public Historian 43, no. 3 (2021): 120-123.

"Jackie Shane" and "Roxanne Gay." African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

"Gather, Connect, Amplify: The Importance of Grassroots Community Building & Dismantling White Middle-Class Public History." Public History News. May 27, 2020.

"Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation." Public History News. June 13, 2018. (Co-authored by Shakti Castro and Patrice Green.)

"150 years ago, this queer activist invented sexual identity to stage a public protest." Medium - Editors' Pick. July 31, 2017.

CREATIVE WORK

"The Lovers." the t4t project – issue two (2023): 18.

"Antiphon." the t4t project – issue one (2022): 25.

"Roots." Shifting Traditions. Berlin: Transnational Queer Underground, 2020.

"What (Is) It Like…?." OUR_STORY. Berlin: Transnational Queer Underground, 2017.

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PRESENTATIONS

PANELS

“Realities of Archival Diaspora.” Rare Book School-Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage (Online). November 6, 2024.

"Women, Gender and Sexuality: Agency and Representation in Monumental Culture." Contested Histories: Creating and Critiquing Public Monuments and Memorials in a New Age of Iconoclasm (Online). Swansea University, Wales, June 28-29, 2021.
 
"Gender and Memory." 1st International Film Studies Conference: Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory (Online). University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 2-4, 2021.

"Decolonising Intellectual History." Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons: Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements (Online). University of Cambridge, England, March 26-27, 2021.

"Transnational Flows: Historicizing Race & Hybrid Space in the 21st Century." World History Association. San Juan, PR, June 27-29, 2019. (Organizer)

"Subaltern Histories." Scholars of Color Conference. Philadelphia, PA, April 12-13, 2019. (Chair)

"Queering Sexual Citizenship: Transnational Perspectives." International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Justice. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 8-9, 2018.

"Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins." American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, November 8-11, 2018. (Organizer)

"Transatlantic Narratives, History & Memory." Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 14-15, 2016.

ROUNDTABLES

“Trans Media, Trans Mediums: Diasporic Desires in South/East Asian Texts,” Trans Joy, Pleasure, Freedom (Online). Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab, August 28-29, 2025. (Organizer & Facilitator)

“Best Practices for Healing Arts & Community Engagement.” National Endowment for the Arts. Washington, DC, January 24-26, 2024.

"Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance: Trans of Color Archives & Storytelling." Queer History Conference (Online). San Francisco, CA, June 12-15, 2022. (Organizer & Facilitator, Sponsored by the National Council on Public History)

"Commemorating the Stonewall Uprising: Transnational and National Retrospectives on Movements and Monuments." American Historical Association. New York, NY, January 3-6, 2020. (Co-Organizer, Sponsored by the Committee on LGBT History and World History Association)

"Reclamation & Resistance: The Making of Grassroots QTPOC Histories." Queer History Conference. San Francisco, CA, June 16-18, 2019. (Organizer)

"Histories of Our Own." National Council on Public History Conference. Hartford, CT, March 27-30, 2019. (Organizer & Co-Facilitator)

"Stonewall @ 50." National Council on Public History Conference. Hartford, CT, March 27-30, 2019. (Co-Organizer)

"Teaching Queer Themes and Experiences in World History." World History Association. Milwaukee, WI, June 21-23, 2018.

"Insider/Outsider: Engaging Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation." National Council on Public History Conference. Las Vegas, NV, April 18-21, 2018. (Organizer & Co-Facilitator)

TALKS

“Myth & Memory as Method: Seeking Trans-Queer Asian America.” Asian American Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, April 13, 2023.

"Gather, Connect, Amplify: QTAPI Testimony & Grassroots Community Building." National Council on Public History Conference (Online). March 18-21, 2020.

"Queer History, Core Texts and Contexts." Intellectual Heritage Department, Temple University. Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2018.

"We Are Everywhere? On Decolonizing the Queer Canon." Temple Early Atlantic Seminar. Philadelphia, PA, September 12, 2018.

"AMA: Sex, Stigma, and Historiography." r/AskHistorians (Online). March 30, 2018.

"The Third Sex? Queering Historiographies of Gender & Sexuality." Women in Core. Philadelphia, PA, March 16-17, 2018.

"The Semiotics of Sex: A History of Queer Identity Politics." National Council on Public History Conference. Indianapolis, IN, April 19-22, 2017.

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HONORS/AWARDS

Mellon Foundation
Trans Studies Grant (for Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab) 2024-2027

National Endowment for the Humanities
Public Impact Projects Grant (for Kin/Folk/Lore) 2024-2026

Committee on LGBT History
Public History Project Grant 2023

PA Humanities
Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (for Kin/Folk/Lore) 2022-2023

Youth Service America
Global Youth Service Day Mentor 2022

Bartol Foundation
Teaching Artist Micro-Grant 2021

National Council on Public History
Historical Research Associates, Inc. New Professional Award 2020
Graduate Student Travel Award 2018

Temple University
Adams Research Award in American History Spring 2019
Zimring Prize for Academic Freedom 2019
Adams Research Award in American History Fall 2018
Adams Research Award in American History Spring 2018
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Travel Award 2018
Zimring Prize for Academic Freedom 2018
Adams Scholarship in American History 2017
Baron Memorial Award in History 2017
Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship Grant 2017
Feinstone Memorial Award for Educational Leadership 2017
Public History Diversity & Inclusion Advocacy Award 2017
Adams Scholarship in American History 2016
Gilmour Scholarship for LGBT Advocacy 2016
Means Study Abroad Scholarship 2016
Vaughn Award in Sociology 2016
Wachman History Scholarship 2016

World History Association
Graduate Student Travel Award 2018

Temple University Libraries
Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award
in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015-2016

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MEMBERSHIPS/COMMITTEES

National Council on Public History
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility Committee (2017 – 2023)
Long Range Planning Committee (2018 – 2023)

Society for Queer Asian Studies
Board Co-Chair (2020-2022)

Committee on LGBT History
Program Committee, Queer History Conference 2022