PUBLISHED WRITING
April 18, 2022: Why saying ‘I’m not racist’ is not enough, The Albuquerque Journal
September 20, 2021: The music of ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ was divine. The myth of happy Cubans, not so much, The Miami Herald
May 2021: Take Away: How a Renovation Connected Me to My Chinese and Cuban Heritages, Brain Mill Press/Voices Literary Journal
April 15, 2021: Sixty years after Bay of Pigs, Biden can find opportunity in Cuba after decades of policy failures. The Miami Herald
April 2021: Of Mangoes, Memories, and Exile. Under the Gum Tree, pp 52-55
August 2020: “Hecho en Tránsito / Made in Transit: A U.S. - Cuban Art Exchange & Intercultural Dialogue” (chapter), Illuminations of Social Imagination, Courtney Lee Weida, Dolapo Adenfiji-Neill, and Carolina Cambronero Varela, Editors, Dio Press
August 20, 2020: Cuba closed its borders to COVID, but people are suffering. To help, end the U.S. embargo. The Miami Herald
March 24, 2020: Between the Lines: Messages from my Family in Cuba, reprinted in Story House (originally published in the Bronx Memoir Project Anthology, Vol.3)
November 30, 2019: Los Carpinteros: When citizens outlive their heroes, Two Coats of Paint
November 16, 2019: The birthday gift Havana deserves: 500 years after the founding of the Cuban capital is the perfect time to correct course and lift the embargo, The New York Daily News
July 31, 2019: There is no going back: Trump Can’t Afford to Lose Us, The Miami Herald
June 26, 2019: Artists: How to Have a Successful Studio Visit, Art Business Journal
June 21, 2019: Between the Lines: Messages from my Family in Cuba, Bronx Memoir Project Anthology, Vol.3
May 23, 2019: Next Steps for Artists and Creatives After Graduation, Art Business Journal
May 20, 2019: Our Woman in Havana: Exploring what it means to be Cuban / The Havana Biennial, Part 2, Two Coats of Paint
May 11, 2019: Our Woman in Havana: The Construction of the Possible, Part 1 review of the Havana Biennial, Two Coats of Paint
April 15, 2019: Zilia Sánchez, surrounded by the sea, Two Coats of Paint
November 11, 2017: "Of Latino Descent: "Radical Women" in LA, Two Coats of Paint
March 12, 2017: Alex O'Neal: Hiding Place in a Dream, Two Coats of Paint
June 18, 2015: How to Use Artwork to Convey Your Company Culture, Entrepreneur magazine
SPEAKING, INTERVIEWS, PODCASTS
2021
The Conversation Art Podcast, Episode #289, March 6: Can an artist get completely immersed in the making? Katarina Wong, part 1 of 2
The Conversation Art Podcast, Episode #290, March 20: Katarina Wong, part 2 of 2
2018
Curator’s talk and gallery tour, part of the Hecho en Tránsito / Made in Transit exhibitions at the Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University and the Salena Gallery, LIU, Brooklyn, NY
Panelist, Houthoff: Connect Global Event, New York, NY
Art Spiel: Re-Framing Narratives (interview)
Panelist, Saudi Cultural Days: “Women Empower Women” Dialogue with Alaa Balkhy, Lauren Bush, Vanessa Saunders, Maha Shira, and Mary Alice Stephenson, and Katarina Wong, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Artist Talk, part of the programming for Circles & Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art II, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; part of the Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time initiative
2016
“Buddhism, Monkey Mind, Chaos, & Connections,” Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; lecture, ceramics class visit, and informal meetings with students
2014
Artists panel, part of the programming for “IRL <-> Internet Real Life,” Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007-11
Docent, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY. Created lectures and tours about Buddhist and Hindu art in the Himalayas