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Betty Yu
Betty Yu is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, educator and activist raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn to Chinese immigrant parents. In 2015, Yu, along with Tomie Arai and ManSee Kong co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective telling stories of Chinatown tenants fighting gentrification through public projections and art that received the 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art. Betty Yu’s documentary Resilience about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions, screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Her multi-media installation, The Garment Worker was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive. She worked with housing activists and artists to co-create Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing, featured in the Agitprop! show at Brooklyn Museum. In 2017, she won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Documentary Award for her film, Three Tours. Yu holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. She is also an adjunct professor at various colleges, teaching new media, art and video production and sits on the boards of Third World Newsreel and Working Films.