PLACE Alumni Engagement Circle

  • Jillie Andersen

    Founder of ChatterBox Arts International & the Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition, and Inherent Health and Body Consulting, Julie Andersen is an independent curator and creative who has produced cross-cultural experiences and interactive exhibitions throughout San Francisco and China in tech and installation art shows.

  • Katie Quan

    Katie Quan (she/her) is a third-generation Chinese American born and raised on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco). She is an artivist, community advocate, storyteller, and educator. Her work has been exhibited at SF Zinefest, Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture, A PLACE of Her Own, and Chinese Historical Society of America. In 2023, she was selected for the Youth Speaks and California Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship. As the Executive Director and founder of REALSOUL, a curriculum-based arts organization, Katie strives to make intersectional histories accessible to K-12 through interdisciplinary lessons. Learn about at https://realsoul.us.

PLACE Alumni Advisory Circle

  • PAZ

  • Ahran Lee

  • Emiy Yamauchi

  • Reyna Daudian

  • Nora Taranowski

  • Tomo Hirai

  • Norma Carrera

  • Laura Padila Tom

  • Manon Wada

Budget Consultants

Irene Wibawa

Shari Arai DeBoer

Photographers & Videographers

Fiscal Sponsors

Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA)

  • Director - Diana Li

Community Advisory Board

  • Deborah Santana

    CEO Temple Tree, LLc, Artist and Advocate, Business Operations, Alignment and Empowerment, Navigating Colonization, Well-being, and Spirituality.

  • Renee Baldocchi

    CEO Baldocchi Projects, Artist, Organizational Networking, SF Arts Advocate, Founder of de Young Artists in Residency, Friday Nights, Arts Education-Residencies-Events

  • Amy Grace Lam, Ph.D

    Community Mental Health, Consultant, a poet-playwright-musician, mother, community advocate, and vibrational energy healer. Her life’s work is dedicated to personal and collective healing. Amy’s art creates healing experiences where people experience a bridge between their physical and spiritual realities. It is this magical conversation where Amy believes the power of art can help us ‘dream the world we want to see into being.’

  • Ravi Chandra, MD.

    Advisor Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is his full-length nonfiction debut, and is the winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought.

    He teaches Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion Cultivation Training Workshops and blogs regularly for Psychology Today since 2011 and for the Center for Asian American Media since 2005 (Memoirs of a Superfan).

  • Susan Almazol

    Oakland-based artist and Silicon Valley-centered businesswoman. Her work is influenced by the cultures she was born into (Philippines), where she began school (Japan), and where she grew up (North America). She creates sculpture, writes creative non-fiction pieces, and dances from her reflections as a child of war, an immigrant outsider, lover of textiles, and celebrant of movement. Her sculpture graces the cover of the art and literary anthology, Cheers to Muses.

  • Katherine Poss J.D.

    Attorney and Art Advocate, Board Member of Cultural Odyssey Expertise in trademark portfolio development and protection, including corporate rebranding, on-line and print copyright protection. Dedicated to community service, she is a board member of La Raza Centro Legal-8 years, nonprofit providing legal services to monolingual Spanish speaking San Franciscans and of Cultural Odyssey, an internationally renowned performance nonprofit working with women in jails and prisons in the US and South Africa to tell their stories.

  • Antonio Salazar Hobson J.D.

    Attorney and Art Advocate, Legal, Philanthropist.

    A 30 year art collector of original Mexican paintings, as well as American art by artists of color.

    Specializes in representing unions, tribes and cultural workers of international importance and with established legacies in their respective field / Served as the Controller of the California Democratic Party (“CDP”), and dedicates fundraising skills to non profits.

    Law degrees from UC Santa Cruz, Stanford and UC Davis and published law review articles on the protection of cultural property under the UNESCO Convention.

  • Cris Matos

    (Art Construction, Installation Consultant, Translation) Art Instructor, Installation Lead, Documentation, visual artist for 45 years, a carpenter, photographer, painter, singer/songwriter/sonero for 50+years, bilingual in Spanish

  • Avotcja

    Social Justice, Literary consultant, KPOO/KPFA DJ, Band member of Mudipie, Poet, Social Justice Queen

San Francisco Arts Commission for their visionary support of PLACE.

Funded in part by

  • San Francisco Arts Commission's ACIP Grants

  • California Arts Council

  • Zellerbach Family Foundation

  • ​Do A Little Foundation

  • WomenArts Harmony Project funded generously by Nathan Cummings Foundation

  • Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition PAAWBAC

  • The Koehn Family Foundation

  • Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center

  • City of Emeryville

Acknowledgments

Meet the PLACE Support System (we couldn’t live without them)

Personal Notes of Gratitude

  • 7GEN

  • J-Sei Center of Emeryville

  • Manilatown Heritage Center

  • Asian Women's Shelter

  • Boys & Girls Clubs of SF

  • Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC)

  • WomenArts.org – Harmony Project

  • De Young Museum’s Public Programs – Artists in Residence

  • SOMArts Cultural Center

  • API Legal Outreach

  • Bhutanese/Nepali Women’s Refugee Collective

  • Avotcja at KPOO and KPFA

Funders

Community Partners

  • SOMArts Cultural Center and staff

  • de Young Museum’s Renee Baldocci

  • J-SEI, Emeryville

  • Thoreau Center for Sustainability’s Bruce DeMartini

  • Driftwood Gallery – Camille and Anthony

  • APICC, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s Vinay Patel

  • Manilatown’s Caroline Cabading and Carlos Zialcita

  • AAWAA and 1890 Bryant Studios

  • Marin Museum of Contemporary Art

Venues

Deep Bows to Asian American Women Artists Association, our fiscal sponsor.

Everyone has worn so many hats it's impossible to list the generous contributions of talent. We are here because of them. It takes a village. 

Thank you for the countless hours of administration, photography, PR, coordination, installation, editing, fundraising, and moral support:

Cynthia Tom, Patricia Zamora, Julie Andersen, Shari Arai DeBoer, Irene Wibawa, Avotcja, Diana Li, Cris Matos, Norma Carrera,  Susan Almazol, Maggie Yee, Manon Wada,  Ed Fung, Diana Lew, Brian Garvey, Kira Ballota of Cantadora Wine, Nora Taranowski, Reiko Fujii, Ravi Chandra MD,Amy G. Lam PhD, Christina Yu LSW, Deborah Santana, Renee Baldocchi, Antonio Salazaar-Hobson and Katherine Poss Salazaar, Ahran Lee, Jill Shiraki, Nina Moore, Karen Larson, Natalie Sacramento, Martha Richards, KelseyElizabeth Myers, Trinity Ordona,  Lenore Chinn,Laura Wong, Thomas Schumake, Mido Lee andLaura Paule,JW Diehl, Teresa Jade LeYung, Hediana Utarti, Tomo Hirai, Jonathan Farrell, Sylvia Lafair, Manicato.

Ancestral Advisors

They continue to guide our way.

  • Janet King

  • Sue Tom

  • Diana Lew

  • Rene Yanez