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        ReadingThe Fabulist and Cafe Suspiro Present July 10, 2025 | 6pm Arc Gallery San Francisco, CA 
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        ReadingNostalgia: Writers on Longing and the Past June 14, 2025 | 5:30pm Canessa Gallery San Francisco, CA 
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        ReadingBay Area Book Festival: Bringing our Youth Back to the Land June 1, 2025 | 2:00pm Brower Center Goldman Theater Berkely, CA 
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        ExhibitionArt 25: Kinship: Translations of Place-based Memory Feb. 22-Sept. 30, 2025 PIEAM Long Beach, CA 
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        ExhibitionArt 25 presents Future Ancestors Jan. 18-Feb. 15 Arc Gallery and Studios San Francsico, CA 
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        PerformancePoetry at FestPAC June 14, 2024 Capitol Modern Honolulu, HI 
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        Reading1898 Revsions Poetry Night February 8, 2024 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. 
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        Curator, HostPoets’ Lunch feat. Arlene Biala and Lee Kava January 25, 2024 YBCA Triennial San Francisco, CA 
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        Visiting WriterNovember 9-11, 2023 Reed College Portland, OR 
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        WorkshopOctober 13, 2023 Indigenous Tending: A Chamoru Futurism Workshop by Pulan Collective UC Irvine | Irvine, CA 
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        YBCA Curatorial CouncilFall 2023-Spring 2024 Bay Area Now 9th Triennial Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco, CA 
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        LectureAugust 31. 2023 Gender, Race, and Justice Lecture Series Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA 
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        ReadingAugust 5, 2023 On Land: Exhibit Opening with Forrest Gander curated by Chris Kerr Marin MoCA | Novato, CA 
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        Art 25 RetreatJuly 2023 Delisted: Engaging the Extinction Crisis Mauna Kea and Kīlauea, Hawai’i Island 
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        Kundiman RetreatJune 21-June 25, 2023 Poetry Faculty Member Fordham University | Bronx, NY 
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        Keynote AddressMay 18, 2023 Commencement: Asian/Pacific Islander/Middle Eastern Graduation Sonoma State University | Rohnert Park, CA 
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        ReadingApril 29, 2022 Puerto del Sol | New Mexico State University Los Cruces, NM 
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        ReadingNovember 13, 2021 Queer Migratory Art of Dissent, with Truong Tran Berkeley Art Center| Berkeley, CA 
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        Keynote AddressMay 12, 2021 Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month Pride: "Creating Indigenous Future Histories" Portland State University | Portland, OR 
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        ReadingApril 21, 2021 The Green Room: Poetry and Place with US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo The Merwin Conservancy | Maui, HI 
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        ReadingApril 17, 2021 Poetry and Environmental Justice: "It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up." With Ed Roberson, Tiffany Higgins, and Eli Clare SFSU | San Francisco, CA 
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        Guest SpeakerApril 17, 2021 Tri-College Asian Student Conference (Tri-CASC): The Seen and Unseen Swarthmore College | Swarthmore, PA 
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        ART 25 ExhibitionNovember 9 - January 24, 2020 Future Ancestors After Life (We Survive), curated by Thea Quiray-Tagle Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA 
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        Pulan CollectiveJune 27, 2020 13 Moons, 13 Meals Chapbook Release A Virtual Public Gathering and Celebration 
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        Keynote AddressMarch 7, 2020 Asian/Pacific Islanders Issues Conference (APIICON): Breakdown and Rebuild: Creating Sustainable Foundations UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA 
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        Visiting Writer/LecturerJanuary 8-11, 2020 Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) MFA Program Santa Fe, NM 
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        ReadingNovember 6, 2019 "Queer Indigenous Futures" with Billy-ray Belcourt, mediated by Alán Paláez López UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA 
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        WorkshopSeptember 14, 2019 The Unburden Project: Creating Indigenous Healing Practices for Queer Micronesians UTOPIA PDX (United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance) Healing and Self-Determination Retreat Sandy, OR 
