In Our Own Words

A project that seeks to harness the power of storytelling to celebrate and bring awareness to history, experiences, and diversity within the AAPI community.

Overview

  • Company:

    Harvard University, funded by the CLIF Grant

  • Timeline:

    September – December 2022

  • Role:

    Product Manager

Skills

  • Technical:

    Canva, Figma, Wix

  • Soft:

    Communication, remote collaboration, project management, timeline management, project planning

Context

Stories from AAPI community members at Harvard will be collected, archived, and compiled into a virtual platform that will also feature Harvard’s records and materials about AAPI history and culture. This project will culminate in a live storytelling event to heal and rebuild the community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Takeaways

As the product manager for this project, my job was to compile content and generate ways to present the content for both the mobile and web version. I used Figma to prototype ideas and Canva to create graphics I can put on the website. This project was meaningful to me because as a member of the AAPI community, I find it so important to illuminate the voices of the AAPI community as we are often “forgotten”. Through this project, my team and I hoped that we would be able to tell the stories of people in the AAPI community at Harvard and to make sure that all their stories were heard.