Theater & Performing Arts

For the past twelve years, she has been a resident artist at Bindlestiff, having performed in productions such as A Pinoy Midsummer, directed by Lorna Velasco; A. Rey Pamatmat’s Thunder Above, Deeps Below, and staged readings for Lysley Tenorio’s Monstress directed by Sean San Jose and Jeannie Barroga’s Aurora. She co­-founded Pinays Maintaining Sisterhood Through Art (P.M.S.T.A) and Granny Cart Gangstas, an all woman Asian ­American sketch comedy group, which recently premiered their latest production, Bad Fruit, at Bindlestiff. She is also a national touring performer with ShadowLight Productions for the show Feathers of Fire created by Hamid Rahmanian in collaboration with Larry Reed, which has been performed at Fort Mason Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Experienced General Manager with a demonstrated history of working to provide affordable housing to low income communities of color. Strong community development professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Political Science and Government from San Francisco State University. Claire’s previous experience includes Program Associate for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and General Manager for the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. Claire is currently the Program Manager for Coordinated Entry for Youth at the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

Applied Design

Irene teaches at SF State University and University of SF and the co-founder of An Otherwise Company and has worked with Intersection for the Arts, Brava Theater Center and Kularts.
She’s a founding member of 8th Wonder (2000), the nation's premiere Pilipina/o performance poetry collective, and The Rhapsodistas, an all-women interdisciplinary hip hop group, performing throughout the U.S. and the Philippines.
Her most recent project was MUMU 1977: an Otherwise Experience at Bindlestiff Studio — a sold-out immersive art-theatre experience that she co-wrote and produced with Susmaryosep and Co. She on the Board of Directors for Kularts, Nihonmachi Little Friends, and the former Funkonometry SF.

Cullinary Arts

Joanne Boston is a San Francisco Bay Area native and is currently the Events Producer for General Assembly San Francisco. In 2016, Joanne was recognized as one of the top 10 young Filipino Americans in the United States by the Philippine Embassy and chosen to be part of the Filipino American Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO). In 2015, she became a founding board member of the Filipino Food Movement (FFM), a nonprofit organization. She was a planning board member for Savor Filipino, the first Filipino food festival in the United States in 2014 and 2016. Notable projects include a dinner at the James Beard House in New York City, culinary event at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Savor Filipino Food Festival in San Francisco and Oakland.

Visual/Contemporary Arts & Curation

Trisha is recognized as an effective leader in the local and national arts community. Trisha holds nearly two decades of experience as an arts administrator within the private, nonprofit, and government sectors. Trisha was previously the Executive Director of Southern Exposure, Senior Project Manager for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and Project Manager for the San Francisco Arts Commission. Trisha is an Independent Curator and Public Art Consultant, the current Chief of Staff at the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Project Director for the “Carlos Villa Retrospective: Ritual and Actions”.

Families & Youth

Meilani has 16 years of experience in occupational therapy, the last eight of which have been focused on treating children in school-based and hospital settings. Since graduating from San Jose State University with a bachelor’s degree in 2001, Meilani has worked in a variety of settings including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home-based, early intervention, and school settings in San Francisco. She traveled as an occupational therapist for two years all over the United States prior to meeting her husband in Washington, DC in 2006. In 2008, Meilani and her family moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for Meilani's husband's job. In Malaysia, Meilani used her knowledge in occupational therapy to mentor occupational therapists in Kuala Lumpur, where she volunteered at a children’s clinic to help treat underserved children with cerebral palsy, learning disorders, and other neurological conditions.