Bex

Bex is a facilitator and mediator of Han Chinese descent whose ancestors settled in Singapore, where Bex was born and raised. Engaged in a lifelong process of undoing the effects of growing up in a society rooted in Chinese supremacy culture, she is invested in creating loving movement spaces and considers deep friendship to be the basis of her work.

As a facilitator, Bex specializes in moving groups through complex processes of strategy, visioning, and repair. They have supported a wide variety of groups to make collective decisions, from large national alliances of member-based organizations to small and scrappy organizing collectives. Influenced by game design and choreography, Bex’s facilitation approach makes the big and impossible puzzles an organization faces feel achievable by creating environments that inspire play and creative possibilities while remaining grounded in political rigor. Bex is also a seasoned mediator who brings direction, precision, and soulfulness to groups experiencing collapse or crisis. With clear focus, she works to surface the underlying needs, while building up each individual’s sense of protagonism and the group’s sense of resilience.

Bex first became politicized through organizing for mental health care, and then later cut their teeth as a organizer through anti-racist student organizing in social work graduate school. As the Senior Organizer at the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), she worked on national, state, and local reproductive justice campaigns and trained young Asian women and gender non-conforming people in organizing skills. Currently, Bex organizes with an anti-carceral peer counseling collective to help build healing pathways that are untethered from systems of surveillance and punishment.

Bex’s facilitation practice is inseparable from their creative practice. With their collaborator So Mak, they blend stand up comedy, puppetry, and theater to explore the complexities of imperialism and the Chinese diaspora through the channel of friendship. They were Jerome Hill Artist Fellows, and have been selected for residencies with cultural institutions such as Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), BRIC, The Trans Theatre Festival, and The High Line. 

Bex currently splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and Singapore with many loved ones and their dog Kaya.