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Ger Xiong
Ntawg Xyooj (he/him)
Design Mentor
Ger Xiong / Ntawg Xyooj was born in Thailand and immigrated to the United States in 1993 as a refugee of the Vietnam War. He received his BFA with an emphasis in Metals and Jewelry at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and his MFA at New Mexico State University. Xiong had exhibited his work nationally including New York City Jewelry Week and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. His work has been published in articles including Star Tribune, Surface Design Association, and internationally, Inspirations Studio in Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Emerging Artist Cohort grant from the American Craft Council, and the MCAD Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists.
Ger Xiong / Ntawg Xyooj was born in Thailand and immigrated to the United States in 1993 as a refugee of the Vietnam War. He received his BFA with an emphasis in Metals and Jewelry at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and his MFA at New Mexico State University. Xiong had exhibited his work nationally including New York City Jewelry Week and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. His work has been published in articles including Star Tribune, Surface Design Association, and internationally, Inspirations Studio in Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar, recipient of the Emerging Artist Cohort grant from the American Craft Council, and the MCAD Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists.
Boonmee Yang
(loosely he/him)
Writer Mentor
Boonmee Yang is an educator who holds multilingual learners very closely to heart. He also enjoys mentoring queer and/or Asian American folks, because knowledge and wisdom should never be gatekept from people within one’s own community. As a writer, Boonmee has published poems and essays in various HMoob/Asian American zines and anthologies in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin; all are often based in the queer and/or refugee-immigrant experiences. Boonmee believes everyone carries a powerful story or narrative, yet the power of a story does not come from being understood by the general mass, but rather from the story existing itself.
Boonmee Yang is an educator who holds multilingual learners very closely to heart. He also enjoys mentoring queer and/or Asian American folks, because knowledge and wisdom should never be gatekept from people within one’s own community. As a writer, Boonmee has published poems and essays in various HMoob/Asian American zines and anthologies in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin; all are often based in the queer and/or refugee-immigrant experiences. Boonmee believes everyone carries a powerful story or narrative, yet the power of a story does not come from being understood by the general mass, but rather from the story existing itself.