Naomi Bragin has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals, a new project which will bring a series of arts practice workshops and community ceremonies to the Chinatown International District in 2026. Grief Rituals addresses the theme of migration through collective experiences of grieving and healing. The project has won support from King County’s 4Culture and City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture special initiative We Still Dream a Future. Grief Rituals grows out of Naomi’s work since 2018 as founding artistic director of Little Brown Language, a trans-disciplinary performance collaborative of leading local artists and organizers.

, executive director of Movimiento AfroLatino Seattle, will work with Naomi as co-artistic director of the project. Community collaborators include , steward of A Resting Place grief and loss cultural resource center, and , co-founder of Black Collectivity. Serving as project research assistant is Mariyah Hicks, a second-year student in Media & Communications at IAS.

To launch the project, Little Brown Language will host a pop-up station for visitors to share their migration stories in a welcoming environment that offers social connection and conversation. Their stories will inform the artists’ creation of a dance-activation, offered to the community as a free public event next spring. The artists will ask participants to write open-ended reflections on paper provided, which they can choose to share anonymously, addressing their lived experience or the experience of a family member:

• What did you/they carry with you?
• What did you/they leave behind?

On Thursday, October 2, 2025, the station will be hosted by ARTS at King Street Station gallery from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Visit the School of IAS event calendar for more details and follow on Instagram for project updates and news.

This project is supported by 4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.

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Dr. Min Tang presents her most recent research on information infrastructures at the 2025 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Seattle. The presentation, titled “Rethink the Digital Cold War: The political economy and geopolitics of information infrastructures”, revisits the “digital Cold War” framework by examining three case studies on the emerging infrastructural technologies in the current geopolitical battle of global information communication technology industries: the semiconductor industry, the artificial intelligence, and the submarine cable. Dr. Tang argues that scholarly discussions around information geopolitics should move beyond the “digital cold war” framework and rethink the materialistic aspects in global information infrastructures.

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Working as part of the UW Bothell Indigenous Mental Health Research Training Experience, together with Corinna Kruger (UW Seattle MSW program alum) and William Hartmann (IAS faculty supervisor), Walls and Sakurai helped analyze all mental health publications on this topic from 2010-2020 and identified several troubling trends “that homogenize Native peoples through the terms used and generalizations made, that racialize Native peoples as an ethnoracial minority group within the U.S., and that pathologize Native peoples by emphasizing health risks and vulnerabilities to the exclusion of Native strengths, resources, and resistance.” They also contributed recommendations for future mental health research with Native peoples and for Native community leaders interested in navigating the mental health literature as a potential resource for addressing concerns about suicide and mental health.

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