Leadership
ESTHER KIM Digital Communications Manager
JYOTHI NATARAJAN Editor-in-Chief
LILY PHILPOTT Programs Manager
Staff
PUBLIC EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS COORDINATOR t.tran le runs and manages AAWW’s weekly events and workshops. They are also a poet with deep roots in Texas. In their time at AAWW, Tiffany has overseen over 300 events with authors and artists such as Monica Youn, Awkwaeke Emezi, Kay Ulanday Barrett, and dozens more. Tiffany serves on the Joint Union-Management Committee of the AAWW Union.
EDITORIAL COORDINATOR YASMIN ADELE MAJEED works on The Margins and the Margins Fellowship. She serves as the unit chair of AAWW’s union with UAW Local 2110. Her writing has been supported by Kundiman, Tin House, Kweli Journal, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
SENIOR EDITOR NOEL T. PANGILINAN edits Open City, a project of The Margins that captures deeply reported stories from Asian immigrant communities across NYC. He possesses more than 20 years of experience in editing, writing for, and managing print and online publications. He teaches Filipino and Philippine history at the College of Mount Saint Vincent (NY) and at Rutgers University (NJ). Noel also taught Filipino American literature at the City University of New York (CUNY)-Hunter College and journalism at Seton Hall University. He earned his Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
ASIA EDITOR KAITLIN REES runs the Transpacific Literary Project, which publishes literature in translation from writers in East and Southeast Asia. Rees co-founded AJAR, a Vietnam-based journal and press, with her collaborator Nhã Thuyên in 2014. AJAR has published four print journals, nine single author collections, three titles as a series of encounters, and one anthology—as well as organized the A Festival, the first of its kind in Vietnam without state or institutional support. A recipient of awards from PEN and Bread Loaf, Kaitlin has guest-edited issues of Words Without Borders and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
A/V PRODUCER ROBERT OUYANG RUSLI is an artist based in Brooklyn and produces AAWW’s YouTube videos, live-streams, and forthcoming podcasts. He was a 2017-2018 Van Lier Fellow in Music Composition from the Asian American Arts Alliance, and has written music for feature films, exhibitions and installations featured in the Queens Museum, BAM Next Wave Festival, BAMCinématek, and international film festivals. He produces experimental rap music under the name OHYUNG and has been featured in PAPER magazine, Tiny Mix Tapes, and other publications. He serves on the AAWW Joint Union-Management Committee.
Board of Directors
Manan Ahmed
Jin Auh
Mariko O. Gordon
Jennifer Hayashida
Hua Hsu
Anne Ishii
Kirby Kim
Jennifer 8. Lee
Tan Lin
Monica Youn
Founders
Curtis Chin
Christina Chiu
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Bino A. Realuyo
Magazine Contributing Editors
Daniel A. Gross, Contributing Editor, A World Without Cages
Ayesha Raees, Assistant Poetry Editor, The Margins
Emily Jungmin Yoon, Poetry Editor, The Margins
