Work – Mochila Zine Corporation

The Mochila Monthly is a monthly one page newsletter inspired by life harvester and The Banana Bulletin. Each issue contains a personal update, a cooking section, a review of a secret spot in the Bay Area, and a coyote update.

Rethinking Travel – 2018, a workbook and mini-lesson for anybody who uses a street, road, or freeway on taking control of the hidden assumptions we make while traveling in our neighborhoods and cities.
Adventures Close to Home – 2019, a written narrative of a bike ride from the bottom of East Oakland to the top of the East Bay Hills, reflecting on the cultures, build environment, and environmental history of the area.
Do Something! – issues from 2015, 2016, and 2017, collections of short personal writing and interviews on important topics such as biking in the rain and the history of burritos.
If You Give a Punk a Coffee – 2012, translated into Spanish in 2017, a remake of a classic children’s book in which an updated main character is just as selfishly endearing, but more punk. Currently printing the bilingual edition.
Ping! – 2016, a personal atlas of bike delivery in San Francisco.
Pocho – a mini-zine on being bicultural and growing up not learning Spanish
Things I Saw While Biking – two photo mini-zines, one with images from San Francisco and Oakland, another with images from a trip down Big Sur

An issue of Do Something! and If You Give a Punk a Coffee at Needles and Pens in San Francisco

a spread of some of my work

Education

February 2020: led a teen Anti-Displacement walking tour and zine workshop at the Cesar Chavez Library in Fruitvale, Oakland, in partnership with Self-Help Graphics.
Summer 2019, a week-long youth summer camp on zine writing and printing. Curriculum include the question, “Who is a writer and how do we share our writing?” Student led activities range from collage, stamping and printing, zine making, mixed-media and different ways to bind zines. Curriculum includes visits from other practicing artists and an end of week art show.

untitled piece in Community ed. Tony Hoang/Muted Talks. 2017.
“Lessons from the “Best Worst Job”” – 2016, masters capstone on precarity, post-modern urban space, and bike couriers.