About Speaker:

May Lee-Yang will focus her talk on the creative process and how it can give voice to social justice issues and thus empowerment. Sometimes the only place to talk about injustice is on the stage while the whole world is watching you. It is the artist's hope that through her art she can inspire, transform and change people's perspectives about an issue, a choice, or a people.

May Lee-Yang is a playwright, prose writer, poet, and performance artist living in Saint Paul, MN. She got her first acting gig at eighteen. Since then, she has gone on to perform her writing as a solo artist as well as a member of the spoken word group, FIRE (Free Inspiring Rising Elements). Her plays include Stir-Fried Pop Culture (produced and toured through the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent), Sia(b) (produced through Mu Performing Arts), and The Child's House (November 2008 through Intermedia Arts' Naked Stages Program). She is a recipient of a MN State Arts Board grant, and a past participant of the Loft's Mentor Series in Creative Non-Fiction.