San Francisco Awardee: Thuy Tran a Bay Area-based artist and experience curator. When not producing events, she’s writing and acting with Granny Cart Gangstas, an Asian American female comedy sketch group. Thuy co-founded The Rooted Recipes Project in 2018 to reflect on the ways that food has played a role in AAPI identity and resistance. A graduate of Georgetown University, she is the current Associate Producer of Public Programs at the JCCSF where she created a Foodways series to elevate Bay Area narratives through storytelling and meal-sharing. Thuy is a 2017 YBCA Public Imagination Fellow and 2016 EAP Fellow with Emerging Arts Professionals SFBA. Funding for the San Francisco Awardee is made possible by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

“I want to create more meals around different topics and bring in more community partners. As I’ve learned at past meals, there is a need for this kind of space – for people to engage, eat, share, reflect, learn, and just be together. Just as much as we need to fight status quo and resist oppressive systems, we also need to be able to experience joy and happiness.”