About

I work at the intersection of relationships, systems, and social transformation, supporting communities, organizations, and movements navigating complexity and change.

Much of my work centers on trust, conflict, and long-term collaboration: how people relate under pressure, how systems hold or fail them, and what becomes possible when deeper conditions begin to shift.

Across different contexts — from grassroots communities in Southeast Asia to civic, policy, and transnational networks — I help people make sense of what they are facing, reconnect where trust has eroded, and build more grounded ways of moving forward together.

Through Re-Imagine Myanmar, I have worked with activists, journalists, and changemakers from Myanmar in exile, designing spaces that support trust-building in low-trust, high-risk environments.

This work is not only about facilitation in the narrow sense. It is about creating the relational conditions for people to reconnect, regain a sense of safety, and imagine futures together when fragmentation and strain make collaboration difficult.

At its core, this area of practice is about peacebuilding through relationship, collective imagination, and the slow rebuilding of networks that can hold long-term movement work.

In contexts such as Cosmo-local Chiang Mai and 4Seas, my work has focused on systems thinking, localization, and long-term strategy.

Often, the most important contribution is not solving the first problem presented, but reframing it. I look at trust, context, timing, and the wider ecosystem around an initiative before moving toward visible structures or decisions.

This allows strategy to emerge from a deeper reading of place, relationships, and possibility rather than from abstract models imposed too early.

I am interested in how networks form, how leadership is distributed, and how collaboration can remain alive without becoming overly centralized or brittle.

This thread of work includes communities and networks such as Pagoda, da0, and g0v, where questions of decentralized collaboration, shared stewardship, and collective sensemaking are central.

Here, my role is often to help shape the social architecture of a network: the trust, structure, and practices that allow people to work together across difference while remaining adaptive.

Another part of my work sits closer to policy, governance, and public goods, including collaborations connected to Taiwan government, APEC, and UN-related processes.

In these settings, I have contributed to policy development, international collaboration, and questions of digital governance and public infrastructure.

What interests me here is how governance can remain human and participatory: how institutions can hold complexity without losing sight of care, legitimacy, and real-world use.

Work with initiatives such as Ava’s House keeps me connected to the grounded, practical side of social transformation: education, community support, and the forms of care that sustain people over time.

This kind of work matters because it resists abstraction. It asks what implementation actually looks like, who is supported in practice, and how long-term care is built into the work rather than added as an afterthought.

For me, these experiences are an important reminder that systems change only matters when it is lived, embodied, and able to support real communities in durable ways.

Across all of these contexts, my work is guided by a relationship-first approach. I see systems not as abstract diagrams, but as living networks shaped by trust, care, power, memory, and shared experience.

Long-term transformation, to me, comes from working across these layers at once: creating conditions where people can reconnect, where clearer strategy can emerge, and where more humane forms of organizing can take root over time.