Empowering Immigrant Stories of Labor

This online panel discussion held on Zoom with Cynthia Tobar, current Racial Justice artist-in-residence at KODA, artist Julia Justo and cultural organizer/oral historian Rochelle Kwan will feature creatives who affect personal change through their socially engaged art and storytelling practices to center immigrant workers' stories of struggle for labor rights.

They will share how their collaborative approaches - across media and visual art - have revealed otherwise ignored and meaningful narratives from underrepresented Latine and Asian American groups across the city.

Panelists will showcase work that questions and deconstructs how labor issues are being dealt with locally, while creating space to honor stories of immigrant New Yorkers as they build power to win racial & workplace justice.

Cynthia Tobar

Cynthia Tobar is an artist, activist-scholar, archivist and oral historian who is passionate about creating interactive, participatory stories documenting social change. Her research interests and art practice focus on documenting stories…