RECURRENT STUDIO


Becoming the steward of your family’s stories takes patience, reflection, and courage— but it’s hard to figure out where to start. RECURRENT STUDIO is a story curation studio that helps individuals and families design, organize, and produce original family & community history projects. 

We believe that understanding where we come from strengthens our sense of possibility and deepens our connection to the wisdom of those who came before us. Through collaboration, we’ll help you grow your voices as storytellers in the process. 

Informed by our experiences in oral history, archival research, documentary production, radio journalism, and Asian American history,We offer structured support and intuitive planning, guiding storytellers carefully through the process of creating a family story from start to finish. 

Interested in learning more? Email us at editors@recurrentstudio.com to schedule a free 20-minute intro call.





What We Offer



RECURRENT STUDIO offers structured support to help you create  exciting and important projects about your family or community. We help you uncover a deeper understanding of family origin stories, migration journeys, childhood memories, family formation, and other transformative life moments. From designing an accessible interview approach, to editing the final product, we help ensure that love and intentionality is behind in every step of the story gathering process. 

Our current offerings focus on guiding a family story project from ideation to completion. Moving at a steady pace with regular check-ins, we help you complete a  project that honors the skills you bring to this work, and can be finished within a certain time frame.

FAMILY HISTORY PACKAGE
Four 1-hour calls + two rounds of asynchronous edits. Through one-on-one guidance, we help bring your initial ideas to life. Extended packages available upon request.

HOURLY EDITING SUPPORT
Flexible editing for written narrative or audio production for any part of your process.

Not sure what you need? Email us at editors@recurrentstudio.com to schedule a free 20-minute intro call to see where we can jump in.



OUR APPROACH



RECURRENT STUDIO’s experience documenting our own family and community histories helps us understand that this work takes time.  We aim to produce stories that are both informative and poignant.

This is a self-paced process, designed to honor the rhythms of discovery and reflection. We encourage participants to book regular meetings to complete the project within a manageable time frame.

Between sessions, participants will be expected to conduct interviews, reflect through journaling, and gather materials that bring their stories to life.




Booking: Email us at editors@recurrentstudio.com to schedule an exploratory call.

ABOUT US

JOSEPH TSUBOI (he/they) is a community storyteller, facilitator, and producer of transformative programs on Tongva land (Los Angeles, CA) with a Master’s in Asian American Studies from UCLA. He specializes in oral history, archival research, and creative storytelling, drawing from photographs, letters, and community archives to surface intergenerational memory and cultural meaning. His MA work on his Japanese American family’s histories of incarceration, displacement, and post-war labor in Sawtelle informs his approach to narrative work rooted in care, place, and identity.

Joseph brings this approach to community organizations by designing and facilitating programs, storytelling projects, and documentation efforts. He has worked within queer-affirming, multiracial, Asian American, and Muslim organizing spaces that use political education and arts to build relationships across communities. His practice blends narrative and program design, reflective facilitation, and story-based strategy to bring these histories to light—work that feels especially urgent in today’s digital and highly politicized era. Guided by a queer, multiracial, and multi-generational lens, Joseph supports clients in creating space that honors lived experience and voice.




SHIRLEY WANG is a writer and journalist from Iowa City, Iowa. She has produced podcasts, written pieces, and talk shows for NPR, 99 Percent Invisible and other publications. She wrote a radio story about her dad for WBUR in 2018 called “My Dad’s Friendship with Charles Barkley”, for which she interviewed her late father. She was a founding member of a journalist-owned newsmagazine from The Brick House. Before that, she was a project manager for the literary studio Plympton, where she has supported the publishing of short stories by many renowned American authors. She is interested in working on voice-y, stylistic pieces, and strives to capture the uniqueness of a person’s character.