Kaede Ashizawa

Kaede Ashizawa (she/her) holds an MA in communication and culture with a concentration on media, technology, and culture from York University and a BA in cultural anthropology with a minor in East Asian studies from the University of British Columbia. Her academic background in media studies and ethnography culminates in experimenting with the affordances and limitations of various forms of media (visual, audio, inorganic, organic, technological, and human) to explore socio-cultural dynamics in identity politics, kinship networks, and various forms of mediated representation surrounding marginalized communities. In her work, she contemplates instrumental and ecological structures of multicultural communities and cities and how they mutually influence and are mediated with individual and collective identities and kinship networks.