Aidan Choi ('26)

Aidan Choi is a literary and visual arts creative from the San Francisco Bay Area. A rising junior concentrating in Ethnic Studies, Aidan is interested in forming creative historiographic methods to counter the systematic erasure of the histories of minority communities. With roots in San Francisco Chinatown, Aidan is passionate about preventing the further displacements of Chinatowns nationally as well as the many other ethnic enclaves facing the same fate. Aidan most recently represented Providence as part of the 2024 ProvSlam Spoken Word Poetry Team.

Jeffrey Yoo Warren (Primary Research Advisor / Mentor)

Jeffrey Yoo Warren (he/him) is a Korean American artist educator, illustrator, community scientist and researcher in Providence, RI, whose recent work combines ancestral craft practices and creative work with diasporic memory through virtual collaborative worldbuilding. He has spent years creating collaborative community science projects which decenter dominant culture in environmental knowledge production. Jeff is an educator with Movement Education Outdoors and AS220, and part of the New Old art collective with Aisha Jandosova, hosting art-making and storytelling events with older adults; he is also the 2023 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress for his ongoing project Seeing Lost Enclaves: Relational reconstructions of erased historic neighborhoods of color.

His current artistic practice investigates how people build identity and strength through their interactions with artifacts and histories, and the ways that objects can tell stories that people can be part of in the present.