Festivals & Exhibitions
SF Zine Fest 2024 — September 1, 2024; selected to exhibit and sell my cartoons, comics, and zines at the city’s largest zine festival.
Cartoon Art Museum: Emerging Artist Showcase — August 17 to December 10, 2023; solo exhibition highlighting my favorite cartoons as part of the museum’s Emerging Artist Showcase series.
Sealevel: Summer in the Sunset Show — July 15 to September 30, 2023; three of my watercolor paintings are on display in the “Summer in the Sunset” group exhibition at Sealevel.
Charles M. Schulz Museum: Guest Cartoonist — July 8, 2023; I was invited to be a guest cartoonist at the Charles M. Schulz Museum, where I showcased my work, spoke with museum visitors, and sold art prints.
Hunt & Gather: Sunset Pride Show — June 17 to August 27, 2023; three of my watercolor paintings were selected for the “Sunset Pride” group exhibition at Hunt & Gather gallery.
Kearny Street Workshop: APAture 2022 — October 15, 2022; I was selected as a showcase artist for the Comics, Zines & Illustration showcase at Kearny Street Workshop’s annual AAPI arts festival.
The Drawing Room: Up in Arms Show — July 30 to September 4, 2022; one of my cartoons was showcased in the “UP in ARMS” group exhibition at The Drawing Room gallery.
Babylon Burning: AAPI Artists Showcase — June 25, 2022; five of my cartoons were showcased in a group exhibition at Babylon Burning Screen Printing.
Talks & Readings
Celebrating the Ruby Creatives in Residence 2023-24 — July 12, 2024; the 2023-24 Ruby Creatives in Residences shared their work and reflections on participating in the yearlong residency program.
The Forum Launch Party — May 24, 2023; I read an excerpt from “Your Driver Has Arrived,” a creative nonfiction piece published in The Forum’s Spring 2023 issue.
Comix Remix: Scaries — October 30, 2022; I performed a live comics reading at Silver Sprocket related to the “Scaries” theme.
Comix Remix: New Horizons — September 11, 2022; I performed a live comics reading at Silver Sprocket related to the “New Horizons” theme.
The Harker School — March 18, 2022; I gave a guest lecture on cartooning to the Graphic Narratives class at The Harker School.
SPEAK! to the People — February 4, 2022; I was a panelist on a Twitter Spaces virtual open mic event.
Press
Harker Magazine — June 26, 2023; “From Tech to Toons: Engineer effects change through social impact work, cartooning.”
Career Calling Podcast — April 6, 2023; “New Yorker Cartoonist Shares Secrets to Successful Cartooning Freelance Work.”
The Frisc — December 19, 2022; “Meet the San Francisco Artists Who Turn the City’s West Side Into a Weekly Sketchfest.”
Two Dudes Watch Cartoons — June 13, 2022. “Flipping Out about the Bob's Burgers Movie with Zareen Choudhury.”
Honors
The Ruby Creatives in Residence — June 2023 to June 2024; I was recognized as a Creative in Residence (CIR) at The Ruby, a community and space for women and non-binary creatives in the Bay Area.
Interdisciplinary Writers Lab — June to August 2023; I was selected to join the 2023 cohort of Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL), a 3-month, multi-genre masterclass for emerging BIPOC writers in the Bay Area.
St. Nell’s Humor Residency for Ladies — May 2023; I was selected for the May cohort of St. Nell’s, a residency for women and non-binary folks in humor.
National Cartoonists Society — December 2022 to present; I was inducted into the National Cartoonists Society, the world’s largest and most prestigious organization for professional cartoonists.
Cartoon Mentorship Program — May to August 2021; I was selected as a fellow in Jeremy Nguyen’s Cartoon Mentorship Program for emerging cartoonists of color.