Kristin Leong
Community Engagement Producer
About
Kristin Leong is KUOW's community engagement producer and the editor of our Seattle Story Project series. She is the creator of Curiosity Club, KUOW's nerdy supper club testing the possibility that a shared meal and compelling stories can transform a group of strangers into a community (KUOW.org/CuriosityClub). She was also the producer of KUOW's post-Covid lockdown web series Are We Going To Be Ok? (KUOW.org/OK), and she led the Station's community engagement for our Biggest Carbon Loser "reality radio" contest (KUOW.org/loser).
As one of 30 international TED-Ed Innovative Educators of 2017, Kristin founded RollCallProject.com, a global portrait and storytelling project humanizing the culture gaps in schools. ROLL CALL is used in classrooms around the world to fuel conversation about equity and representation.
Her portrait project, HALF: Biracial + Bicultural in America, was nominated for USA Today's Outstanding Academic & Intellectual Endeavor Award.
As a senior at Sarah Lawrence College, the New York Times called her a "graduate already in the driver's seat."
She is a 2018 Citizen University Fellow, a recipient of The Slants Foundation's 2020 Countering Hate Award, and a 2020 Seattle Mayor's Arts Award nominee.
Her latest adventure is ROCK PAPER RADIO (RockPaperRadio.com), a weekly newsletter for misfits and unlikely optimists.
Stories
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Seattle Now
Local designer aims to turn Seattle into fashion hot spot
Worried you won't remember how to get dressed once lockdown lifts? Fashion desinger Jamen Lanogwa Saziru believes there's hope for Puget Sound style beyond fleece and flannel.
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Seattle Now
How cities can change along with the PNW climate
The causes of June’s deadly heatwave are still being studied, but the early science says the usually mild PNW can expect more blistering heat, and more often. We get a picture of how it played out around the city, and hear from a climate scientist about how Seattle can adapt.
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Speakers Forum
'Shame changer': Sex tech CEO disrupts Asian stereotypes with adult films
Make Love Not Porn founder Cindy Gallop says the future of pornography is "social sex" and the end of fetishizing women of color.
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Engage
What does it mean to be Asian in America? We're listening
A special statewide broadcast on Asian and Pacific Islander identities and experiences in America today.
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Speakers Forum
'Attractive for an Asian man’: Photographer reframes Asian American masculinity
Chinese American photographer Andrew Kung is reclaiming representation of the all-American man one portrait at a time.
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Speakers Forum
On Asian America: Sex, gender and the 'exotic other'
From adult films to a portrait series on Asian men, stereotypes of Asian identity are being disrupted in surprising and creative ways.
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Engage
Meet the Newsmaker: Kristin Leong on Asian representation in schools, Feb 11, 2:00 PM PST
Is the "minority myth" still alive today? Let's talk about it.
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Engage
Whitewashing of Asian Students and the Report that Launched a Reckoning
A school district sparked fury after grouping Asian and white students together. The message was clear: 'person of color' meant underperforming.
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Engage
Bellevue School District responds to questions about Asian student equity
The majority of students in the Bellevue School District are Asian.
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Curiosity Club
Film: Curiosity Club Turns Strangers into a Community Following a Fraught Election
KUOW brings together ten strangers for a virtual dinner party to talk about pandemic roller skating, the #MeToo movement, and Seattle's shifting political landscape.