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About Katytarika

Katytarika Bartel (they/she) is an artist, educator, and organizer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Katytarika is a queer, mixed race Thai-American writer, photographer and award-winning filmmaker interested in shining light on spaces of in-between. Katytarika is fiercely passionate about making photography more accessible, letting young people do things, and the color yellow. Katytarika is the co-founder and co-director of the Boston-based art collective, ANGRY ASIAN GIRLS, which works actively in the community to promote and uplift the narratives of APIA young folks. Katytarika engages the tools of spoken word poetry, writing, and media to teach social justice topics to young people. Katy is the former Teen Program Coordinator at Castle Square Tenants Organization, and also teaches with the WallTalk program at the Institute of Contemporary Art.