Katherine G. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Katherine Gan (they/them) is a multimedia artist and educator, specializing in poetry, film photography, and digital collage. Katherine recently graduated from Duke University in May 2022, with a B.A. in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (GSF), where they were awarded Highest Distinction and won the 2022 Honor’s Thesis Distinction Prize in GSF for their 134-page thesis, “Excavating the Afterlives of Empire through Asian/American Women’s Aesthetics & Poetry.” Katherine currently teaches Korean ELL students, implementing creative instructional strategies to improve English reading, writing, and conversational skills. At Duke, they taught and designed two courses for Duke and UNC undergraduates, "Reimagining Our World" (SP 21) and "Poetry and Art as Healing" (FA 21) as well as spearheaded Poetry Lab, for students of color to explore art, writing, history, politics, and creativity through community. Katherine also has experience with political and community organizing; they took a gap year from 2019-2020 as a field organizer in the 2020 Democratic primaries. In their free time, aside from creating, consuming, and collaborating on art, Katherine enjoys cooking Chinese & Korean food, making Spotify playlists for friends, and basking in the sun. Katherine cares about cultivating a learning environment that empowers and equips students with confidence, especially through failure. They are happy to support students with reading, writing, essays/applications, art, organizational skills, and much more!