Joy Yanga is a first generation, Filipina American born in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. She believes in the power of words and that to dream is an act of freedom and liberation. Once upon a time she didn't know how to make sense of the world she lived in so, she took the road to higher education, in hopes to figure it out and find a better meaning to her life. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a Bachelor's Degree in American Studies because the courses she took, the teachers who taught it and the students who disagreed with how mainstream history books erased people like herself had motivated and challenged her to study in a new light. She's worked briefly with communities in Oakland, New Orleans and the Philippines to demand justice for our rights as people. She loves learning and making connections to how this world works. You’ll find Joy scheming up ways to connect community organizing with the arts.

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