Selected Member of NEW INC, New Museum Incubator, “Social Architecture track”, Supported by Jonathan D. and Mark C. Lewis Foundation, NEW Museum, NYC. 

Review: Martin, Erika, UNA FUERZA EN ESPIRAL: LA UNIÓN DE FEMINISTAS ENGENDRANDO NUEVOS SISTEMAS (UNFES), 2025, Artishock. 

Press: On View: “We are seas, rivers, flowers, minerals, volcanoes, mountains, and compost,” Untitled DB, Visual Art Database, USA, 2025.

Exhibition: “Union of Feminists Engendering New Systems,” Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), San José, Costa Rica. Curated by Maya Juracán (Guatemala) and myself.

Press: “RESISTENCIAS de la Unión de Feministas Engendrando Nuevos Sistemas (UNFES)” trans. “RESISTANCES of the Union of Feminists Engendering New Systems (UNFES)”, Chiquilla Te quiero, Magazine of contemporary art in Mexico and Latin America, Mexico, 2025. 

Press: “AMA y Construye la Memoria”, el libro interactivo que transforma el duelo en semilla” trans. “LOVE and Construct Memory,” the interactive book that transforms grief into a seed, La Lupa Press, Nicaragua, 2025. 

Press: “EN BUSCA DE DIGNIDAD: CREACIÓN Y TERNURA RADICAL EN EL MADC”, trans. “In the search of Dignity: Creation and Radical Tenderness at MADC”, Arte al Día, Spain, 2025.

Press: “MADC inaugurará muestra de arte feminista centroamericano con más de 40 obras” trans. MADC will inaugurate a Central American feminist art exhibition with more than 40 works, Delfino, Costa Rica, 2025.

Press:  “UNFES: Arte colectivo centroamericano por la justicia social, racial y de género” trans. “UNFES: Central American collective art for social, racial, and gender justice”, FURIACA, 2025.

Press:  “Somos mares: arte feminista centroamericano en resistencia” trans. “We are oceans: Central American Art in Resistance”, Agenda Propia, Nicaragua (Podcast), 2025

Press: “Resistencias centroamericanas: narrativas feministas en el arte se unen en Costa Rica”, trans. Central American Resistances: Feminist Narratives in the Art unite in Costa Rica,  La Lupa Press, 2025.

Exhibition: “La Futura en Colectiva es una promesa” trans. “The Collective Futura is a Promise”, Solo exhibition, Satisfactory Casa de las Artes , San José, Costa Rica. Curated by Erika Martin (US- Costa Rica).

Press: ¿Cómo lucirá una ‘futura feminista’? Portales de afecto y redes feministas para reconstruir un mundo herido“ trans. What will a ‘future feminist’ look like? Affectionate portals and feminist networks to rebuild a wounded world. La Nación, Costa Rica, 2025. 

Press: “Artista Visual Emilia Yang: entre redes sensibles y disidencias istmicas” trans. “Visual Artist Emilia Yang between sensible networks and istmic dissidences”. Semanario Universidad, Costa Rica, 2025.

Residency: Satis.factory Casa de las Artes, San José, Costa Rica.

Talk: “Memorias y Futuros Rebeldes, Arte, Archivos y Comunidad contra el Autoritarismo en Nicaragua y Centroamérica” trans. “Rebel Memories and Futures, Art, Archives and Community against Authoritarianism in Nicaragua and Central America”, Centro Cultural de España en Costa Rica (CCER), San José, Costa Rica. 

Exhibition: “Ir y Venir, Memorias de Mujeres Migrantes” trans. “Coming and going, Memories of Migrant Women” Group Exhibition, Agencia Ocote, Guatemala. Curated by La Revuelta Collective (Guatemala).

Press: “El arte de resistir de Emilia Yang: La memoria como acto político” trans. Emilia Yang’s Art of Resisting: Memory as a Political Act, Agencia Ocote, Guatemala.

Exhibition: “Conversing with Domestic Memories” Group Exhibition, Ruang Mes 56 Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Curated by Alejandra Gaviria (Colombia).

Press:  “¿Cómo es ser mujer en Centroamérica?” Centroamérica entre autoritarismos e ilusiones trans. “What is it like to be a woman in Central America?” Central America between authoritarianism and illusions. (Podcast), Costa Rica and El Salvador,  2025. 

Talk: “Memory, Narrative, Histories Research Collective Seminar” University of Brighton, United Kingdom. 

Talk: “ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping”, Incite Center and Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University.

2024

Press: “La identidad centroamericana como posicionamiento político y práctica: Emilia Yang y su activismo por la memoria y la sanación colectiva” trans. “Central American Identity as a Political Position and Practice: Emilia Yang and Her Activism for Memory and Collective Healing”, OIstmo – Articulación Centroamericana, 2024. 

Review: Araceli Ramírez, 2024. “Repensar y Rediseñar Un Metaverso Seguro e Inclusivo un Estudio Exploratorio desde el Sur Global”. Trans. “Rethinking and Redesigning a Safe and Inclusive Metaverse: An Exploratory Study from the Global South”. Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), Paraguay, p.27.  

Talk:  “Rebellious Memories: Expanded Archives and Technologies in the Americas”, Institute of the Humanities, University of Michigan.

Talk:  “Difficult Archives: Transformations in Black and Indigenous Worlds”. Toronto MemoLab. Organized by Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN) at University of Toronto, Canada.

Talk: “Community & Transmedia Archives for Just, Anti-Racist and Feminist Futures” Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), York University and Sur Gallery, Toronto Canada

Talk:  “Follow Her Lead: A conversation on the role of art and advocacy in achieving gender equality,” Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA.

Award: Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award on Scholarship and Leadership, North Campus, University of Michigan.

Award: Hunting Family Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan. 

Publication: “Curaduría y creación colectiva como encuentro político desde el exilio,” trans. “Curation and collective creation as a political gathering from exile.” La Buchaca, Teorética, edited by Maya Juracán.

Residency: The Lab + Tlaxcala 3 “Situated Practices, Spatial Narratives”, Ciudad de México, México. 

Residency: Poco a Poco, “Sur o No Sur” Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico. 

Press: “Feminist Networks Save Lives” – Emilia Yang on Building a Future in Freedom”, Bellagio Perspectives, Rockefeller Foundation, 2024.

New Article: “Multidirectional Memories and Transnational Solidarities In Exile: AMA Y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity” March: The Journal of Art and Strategy.

Workshop: Org Residues (organic, organizing, organizations) after massacres: Post-Mortem Insurrections and Politics, ESC symposium,”Residues or What Remains”, 04/12/24, U-M.

Talk: Community & Transmedia Archives for Just, Anti-Racist and Feminist Futures Artist Talk at OCAD University’s Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD), Toronto, Canada.

Conference: “Augmented Reality for Community Memory in the Face of Repression”, Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference, Pratt Institute, New York, June 9th, 2023.

Talk: “The Transformative Memory Distinguished Speaker Series” Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, 2023.

Award: CARE USA and Rockefeller Foundation Arts for Gender Equality Fellow and Bellagio Center Resident , USA, March 22, 2023.

Talk: “Against Forgetting: Grassroots Opposition to State Oppression in Latin America and Iran.” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA, April 1st, 2023. 

Award: 2023 Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) Immersive Impact Award Winner,  Creative Advocacy Jury Award Winner,  Winner of the Jury Award for Journalistic Achievement

Press: This is ME! – Stories of who we are, shared through our own voices, Wikimedia Foundation’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Team, DIFF, Online, April 19th, 2023.

Talk: The Aesthetics of Resistance: Artists Respond to Armed Conflict at Home” College Arts Association (CAA), New York, February 17th, 2023.

Talk: “Historical Memory in Spain and Latin America.” Amnesty International at the Mediterranean Human Rights Festival, Valencia, Spain.

Talk: “Collectivizing Justice: Digital Memory Objects, Transmedia Archives, and Organizing Spaces in an Authoritarian Context”. Digital Studies Colloquium Digital Studies U-M, Ann Arbor, USA.

Interview: Otero Quezada, Edith and Fátima Elizondo Rodríguez. 2023. “Reconstructing Women’s Contemporary Political Struggles across the Central American Region”. Feminisms in Movement, Theories and Practices from the Americas. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld University p.201-215.

2022

Award:  2022 AIGA 365 A Year in Design – Social Design Category Winner,  American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, 2022.

Keynote Speaker: The Immersive Campus of the Future: DEI, Extended Reality and Student Success in Minority-Serving Institutions Conference, Florida International University, December 4–6, 2022.

Award: 2022 U-M Public Art and Engagement: Faculty and Staff Fellowship organized by U-M Arts Initiative, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Philadelphia-based organization Monument Lab, 2022.

Grant: Consultant Ethical and Responsible Research for Augmented Reality, National Science Foundation Grant earned by the Expressive Computation Lab at UC Santa Barbara, 2022.

Talk: “Practice Based Research, Activism and Transmedia creation in the search for Justice in Nicaragua”, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) National Conference: Exploring Artistic Research, Michigan, 2022.

Talk: “Museums, resistance and documentation,” Museums under Pressure Conference, Federation of International Human Rights Museum, 2022. 

Festival: AMA Construye la Memoria, Narrar el Futuro, Festival de Nuevos Medios Colombia, 2022.

Talk:  Aqui Junto al Agua y AMA Construye la Memoria, VR Mexico Fest, 2022.

Talk: Visual Memory and Protest Art. Centre for Memory Narrative and History, University of Brighton, 2022. 

Publication:  “Mujeres, madres y feministas en Nicaragua: resistiendo desde la construcción de la memoria y la lucha contra la impunidad” Book “Feminismos, memoria y resistencia en América Latina. Tomo 2. Narrar para no olvidar: memoria y movimientos de mujeres y feministas”,  Centro de Estudios Superiores de Mexico y Centroamérica, 2022.

Review: Exhibition “Fotografía y Memoria en Nicaragua / The April Rebellion: Photography and Memory in Nicaragua”. 2022. Zine was included in the Protest in Photo Book Archive. 

2021

Talk:  “Archives of/in Revolt”. Archives of the Commons, Archives to Come. Southern Conceptualisms Network and Reina Sofía National Museum and Art Center, Madrid, Spain, 2021.

Talk:  “Flashpoint: Nicaragua” Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Michigan University 2021.

Talk: Fotografía en, desde y sobre Centroamérica (Parte II): VolcáNica 1979–2018: las explosiones sociales en Nicaragua y la cultura visual, Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales Vulcanoamérica, 2021

Press: “Exposición en Costa Rica rinde homenaje a fallecidos durante protestas en Nicaragua”, France 24, 2021. 

Press: “¡Abril no se olvida! Libro recuerda a víctimas nicaragüenses”, La Nación, Costa Rica, 2021. 

Press: “Episode #31 – AMA y No Olvida, Museum of Memory against Impunity” Central American Voices Podcast, 2021.

Press: “Mujeres construyendo memoria en Centroamérica” La Corriente Feminista, Cuerpos Sinverguenzas Podcast, 2021. 

Press: “Podcast: AMA y Construye la memoria”, Se hace Camino al Andar, Delfino CR, Costa Rica, 2021. 

Press: “¡Abril no se olvida! Libro recuerda a víctimas nicaragüenses”, La Nación, Costa Rica, 2021. 

2020

Press: “NICARAGUA: HOW SOCIAL JUSTICE AND GRIEF GO HAND IN HAND”, UCSB News, 2020.

Press: “Museum of Memory dedicated to victims of state violence wins prize in Nicaragua”, The Art Newspaper, 2020. 

Press: “Museo sobre víctimas de las protestas contra Ortega gana premio en Nicaragua”, EFE, 2020.

Press: “Protecting the most vulnerable: What it takes to make a case under the US asylum system”, San Diego Union Tribune, 2020. 

Interview: Ruberg, Bonnie. 2020. “Making Games about Queer Women of Color by Queer Women of Color”, Tonia B****** + Emilia Yang, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: LGBTQ Video Game Makers and the Future of Interactive Media. Duke University Press p.153-162.

2019

Press: “El Museo de la Memoria contra la Impunidad que rinde homenaje a las víctimas del régimen de Daniel Ortega”, Univision, 2019

Press: “Nicaragua: “Madres de Abril” abren Museo de la Memoria”, Deutsche Welle, 2019.

Press: “Un museo por la memoria y contra la impunidad en Nicaragua”, El País, 2019.

Press: “Inauguran el Museo de la Memoria contra la Impunidad “AMA y No Olvida” en Managua”, CNN,2019.

Press: “Inauguran en Nicaragua museo memoria sobre víctimas de protesta contra Ortega”, EFE, 2019.

Review:  Arkee, Donna. 2019. “w3 wi11 ov3rf10w ur cistem g4t3s: The Hackers of Resistance.” American Quarterly 71.1: 287-294.

2018-2017

Review: Valley, Lauren. 2018. Electric Women, “Time to Escalate”.

Review: Dambrot, Shana Nys. 2017. “Animating the Archives: The Woman’s Building,” Art and Cake.

Review: Muchnic, Suzanne. 2017. “Wondering Women: ‘Animating the Archives’ Channeled the Energy of Feminist Activity in L.A. from 1975 to 1991”, Artnews. 

Ohanesian, Liz. 2017. “Young Creatives Are Using Games to Take on Issues Like Racism and the Refugee Crisis”, LAWeekly.

Jones, Kevin. 2017. “#Time2Escalate: Interactive Game Shows How Activism Requires Collaboration,” KQED Arts. 

“Unbordered Imaginaries: Engagements Across the US/Mexico Border”, Civic Imagination Project“. Annenberg School of Journalism and Communications, USC, Los Angeles, 2017.

“Young Creatives Are Using Games to Take on Issues Like Racism and the Refugee Crisis”, LAWeekly, 2017.

“Political Memories and Imaginative Futures Through Playful Methodologies”, Information Studies Colloquium UCLA, 2017.

ThinkIndie: Games and Politics: Where Do We Stand?, Indiecade Festival Panel, 2017.

“#Time2Escalate: Interactive Game Shows How Activism Requires Collaboration,” KQED. 2017

“Poema Colectivo: Revolución or becoming the structure” HTWW, Held Together with water, Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland (2017).

“La Cultura del Sandinismo in Nicaragua – Teorías y Testimonios“, H-Soz- i- Kult, Communication and subject information for the history sciences, 2017

Marias Clandestinas, Shared Futures: Practices And Methods For Participatory Speculative Design, Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship, 2017.

“Mapping Oppression in women game players, creators, and characters” Panel, South Bay Conference on Gender: Gender in Video Games, 2017

“Watch: Downtown Browns,” Mask Magazine. 2016.

“Downtown Browns,” USC Games. 2016.

“Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Videos Spotlight Women of Color” , Vice The Creators Project. December, 2016.

Additivist cookboook launched, December 2016.

FOUR HARD TRUTHS ABOUT FAKE NEWS, Alexandra Juhaz in collaboration with “Activism and Digital Culture” class, Professor Tara McPherson. November, 2016.

PATA, BETA, META Cartographies collective exhibition. November, 2016.

Downtown Browns. A creators’ profile by Eko. Interview. November, 2016.

“By Any Media Necessary (Part Six)“, Henry Jenkins Blog.

“Magic Circles of Life” IndieCade Gaming For Everyone Pavilion sponsored by Intel, 2016.

“Subjected to Play: Locating the Subject in the Promise of Play” Panel, First Forum Conference by USC SCA Critical Studies 2016

“Salon on Media Activism with LA hactivists/gamers and Geert Lovink”, Digital Humanities Claremont College, 2016

“ Designing a framework for participatory, co-creative media and political design practice ” HASTAC 2016. Impact: Variation, Innovation, Action, Arizona, USA (2016).

“Dialogue with digital creators of Mexico and Central America. Cyberculture, politics and intellectual property rights”, Cultural Transduction Conference, Colombia (2016).