Tag: ARI Graduate Student Fellow

  • Raty Syka

    Raty Syka

    Raty Syka Raty Syka (they/she), aka NUMPIE, is a comic artist and illustrator based in Santa Cruz, CA. With a background in sociocultural anthropology, folklore, and American Studies, Numpie makes comics and visual projects based on ethnographic research. Collaborative works highlight stories of agriculture in California – from the sustainable to the surprising. Raty has…

  • Shirin Towfiq

    Shirin Towfiq

    Shirin Towfiq Shirin Towfiq is an interdisciplinary artist working with an emphasis on installation, sculptural photography, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing from her positionality as a second-generation Iranian refugee, her artwork explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. She focuses on everyday practices of belonging and…

  • Lalu (Esra) Özban

    Lalu (Esra) Özban

    Lalu (Esra) Özban Lalu (Esra) Ozban creates, curates, exhibits, and archives audio/visual media. Lalu’s artistic, curational, and scholarly work focuses on trans, queer, and feminist pedagogies, methodologies, theories, histories, and creative practices. Lalu’s work has reached international audiences, with screenings at InsideOut Toronto, Pembe Hayat KuirFest, Documentarist, and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest. They…

  • Hans Kuzmich

    Hans Kuzmich

    Hans Kuzmich Hans Kuzmich is an interdisciplinary artist and Ph.D. student in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work is concerned with developing abolitionist representational strategies that address gender normativity as a product and producer of the prison industrial complex, and racialized anti-trans/queer violence as its expression.…

  • Jiayi Li

    Jiayi Li

    Jiayi Li Jiayi is a Chinese-American immigrant, raised by working class Chinese parents in San Francisco after moving to the US from China. Jiayi gained her undergraduate degree in Film at UC Berkeley and, since completing her studies, has dedicated herself to journalism in the Bay Area, using her bilingual skills to document struggles, economic…

  • Em Butler

    Em Butler

    Em Butler Em Butler is a writer, filmmaker and community organizer from Long Beach, California. Of Cambodian-English heritage and as a first-generation queer Khmer-American, she plans to do documentary and journalism work broadly in Southeast Asia and the Philippines with research approaches situated between documentary, ethnography, and journalism. Her work currently explores the developing cultures…