Filipino-American writer/performer, cultural worker, educator Aimee's mission is to create, and help others create, work that builds community, fosters healing, and provokes important questions through poetry, song, movement and theatre. Recognizing her role on the continuum of Filipino, women of color, queer, activist and literary histories, she confronts racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression through writing, performance, and workshops for youth and adults. Formerly a member of Kreatibo, a queer Pin@y arts collective who produced an award-winning play, Dalagas and Tomboys: A Family Affair; multi-ethnic group Dancers Without Borders, and a Mills College M.F.A. graduate, Aimee has taken bold steps as an artist through her multidisciplinary theatre production entitled Pagbabalik (Return), which received a Zellerbach Community Arts Grant in 2006 and 2007 and was selected for CounterPULSE's 2006 Emerging Performance Festival. Aimee's work also includes the chapbook the space between (Finishing Line Press 2008), publication in the anthology "Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees" (Lit Noire Publishing 2006), a track on the "Eye of the Storm" CD benefiting the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, highly lauded performances at festivals such as Apature, the Radical Performance Festival, and the UN World Environment Day Voices Rise Up! and various universities, conferences and panels, where she often speaks about the intersection of art and social justice activism. more >