Joanna Lin

Aug 18, 2023 | sampan.org | Joanna Lin |Christopher John Stephens

On the second floor of an orange building on Allston’s Harvard Avenue, the muted conversations of parents and the loud chatter of young children can be heard, among suitcases and toys. In this pocket of the city that is the Brazilian Worker Center, Haitian families seek temporary refuge before continuing their long journeys to hotels or medical centers and pursuing the place where they hope to reside: a safer and more permanent home.

Aug 18, 2023 | sampan.org | Christopher John Stephens |Joanna Lin

The Chinatown Master Plan was first developed in 1990 to respond to residential concerns about competing demands for affordable housing and institutional expansion in Chinatown.

Mar 26, 2023 | sampan.org | Sonia Cavazos |Aili Liu |Joanna Lin

The design of video game characters and the way they perform can become problematic when they promote harmful gender and racial stereotypes, and unrealistic body modifications, an occurrence termed “virtual enfreakment”. The confluence of gaming and the design of the characters is critical to understand.