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Jennifer Byer

BA Visual Studies, 2011

Jenny Byer has put her degree to the test, working in such capacities as the assistant to the directors at Oakland's Royal NoneSuch Gallery, a volunteer at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), and as prime research assistant to art historian Susan Landauer, where she researched in several different archives -- including American Art Archives and the House Un-American Committee Records -- for the author’s upcoming monograph on Bay Area artist Hassel Smith.

She has curated two exhibitions at CCA's College Avenue Galleries: a group show Volatile Bodies and an undergraduate exhibition, three pounds of blood, dream, and electric.

Byer currently works as a production associate at Garner Printing in Des Moines as well as docent at the Des Moines Art Center and tour guide at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, and coordinates an ongoing performance exhibition for artist Gabriel Lueders (for whom she also designed and produced the website).

Megan Vrolijk

BFA Visual Studies, 2008

Megan A. Vrolijk has produced two films since graduating: Who Leads and Love Is Not Enough.

She also chaired the 12th Annual International film Conference "Histories Created Through Film" at San Francisco State University, where she earned her MA in Cinema Studies, and her project “Codependent Lesbian Space Aliens Coming to a Town Near You: Community Building As a Road to Distribution,” has been accepted to the 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Chicago.

Vrolijk cofounded Tornspocket to empower youth and underrepresented people to create and share their stories through film and new media.

Today she is a lecturer in the American Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, she is a training ride leader with AIDS Lifecycle.

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Bo Luengsuraswat

BA Visual Studies, 2007

Thun "Bo" Luengsuraswat is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist who has presented his academic work at conferences nationwide, including the Trans*Studies Conference, Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: A Major Conference, the Association for Asian American Studies, and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.

A few exhibition venues he has participate in include Fresh Meat in Gallery VI: Defying Gravities, the National Queer Arts Festival 2011 (Queer It Yourself -- Tools for Survival), and the 10th San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.

Luengsuraswat's cover image design was selected for Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Min Zhou and J. V. Gatewood (New York University Press, 2009).

His poetry and short essays have been published in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman (Seal Press, 2010); Uproot: Queer Voices on Migration, Immigration, Displacement & Diaspora, edited by Mahfam Malek (forthcoming 2012); and the Anthology of Trans and Genderqueer Poetry, edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Peterson (Trace) (EOAGH Books, forthcoming 2012).

Read his online publication “Rewriting the Written: FTM Self-Making and the Performance of Possibilities in Sean Dorsey’s 'Uncovered: The Diary Project.'”

Michael Braithwaite

BA Visual Studies, 2009

Michael Braithwaite currently works as a writer for an education-reform organization in Providence, RI, and is currently working on a postapocalyptic travel log.

She was awarded CCA's Carmen M. Christensen Endowed Scholarship in 2008 and 2009.

She is the cofounder and coeditor of Ironing Board Collective, which examines culture through the lens of fashion, and has had her work published in the arts quarterly Plastic Antinomy, the Bay Citizen, the online magazine And, the arts quarterly At a Glimpse, The Rumpus, and SF Weekly's blog "The Exhibitionist," where she was a regular contributor.

Braithwaite co-curated and co-organized San Francisco's multidisciplinary arts event series "Go!", worked as a creative writing artist in residence at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, and organized a lecture and performance series for the San Francisco Zen Center.

She volunteered for San Francisco's Streetside Stories (an organization dedicated to helping underserved youth tell their stories), Intersection for the Arts, and Boston's Floating Hospital for Children.

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