Episode 77: Intergenerational Storytelling with Chinatown Seniors — with Yulanda Lui and Rachel Lau

About Our Guests

Rachel Lau

Through audio storytelling, photography, and zine-making, they produce work that grapples with ideas and feelings around resistance, longing, transience, death, and decay. As part of their audio practice, they have produced several narrative radio documentaries focused on the lives of marginalized peoples, including Vancouver’s Chinatown community. More recently, they have expanded their practice into the realm of sound art. Rachel is also a recent graduate of the media studies program at the University of British Columbia, with a minor in Asian Canadian & Asian Migration studies.

Yulanda Lui

She graduated from UBC in 2017 with a BA in Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. At UBC, she was the primary coordinator of The Pride Collective at UBC, organizing fellow student volunteers to support and improve the health and safety of queer and trans students. In 2018, Yulanda co-founded Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice, a non-profit organization that provides and enables services, advocacy, and education that develop youth and senior leadership and build community power in Vancouver's Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside. Yulanda is a strong believer that relationships are at the core of social change. Starting this fall, Yulanda will be attending the New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar. She hopes to use her law degree to continue to empower her communities, to advocate for the rights of marginalized peoples, and to break down barriers to accessing health, education, social support, and justice.