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.