Conference Keynote Speakers
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Saymoukda Duangphouxay VongsaySaymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is a Lao American writer. She was born in a refugee camp in Nongkhai, Thailand and immigrated to Minnesota in 1984. Because of her unique background, her work is focused on creating tools and spaces for the amplification of refugee voices through poetry, theater, and experimental cultural production. Her plays have been presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Theater Mu, Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists, and Theater Unbound. She is a Playwright's Center fellow in playwriting, a Loft Literary Center fellow in spoken word poetry, a Theater Mu fellow in playwriting, a Twin Cities Media Alliance fellow in public art, and an Aspen Ideas Bush Foundation scholar. She's received creative grants from the Jerome Foundation, Bush Foundation, Joyce Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Forecast Public Art, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the MN State Arts Board, to name a few. She holds a Master in Liberal Studies degree specializing in arts and cultural production and development. Her illustrated book, When Everything Was Everything (Full Circle Publishing $18.95) is available now. Keep up with her @REFUGENIUS
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