Tommy Cheemou Yang

New York City

Tommy Cheemou Yang is an indigenous Hmong designer, researcher, and educator focused on insurgent urban and architectural transformations, utilizing inter-disciplinary methods such as fieldwork, oral/public history, and radical mapping. His current work challenges architectural and urban design epistemologies, cultivating conversations on identity, social action, resiliency, and insurgent placemaking. Tommy’s recent works include a collaborative exploration in Memory, Trauma, and Home which was recently supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and an array of community-engaged scholarship ranging from Wisconsin, New York, Thailand, and Taiwan tracing how local embodied practices cascade into large urban transformations.