MY NAME STORY

Judy Lee is the creator of My Name Story and began this project when she started thinking about her own name story and how it’s been a reflection of her struggles and journey with identity and selfhood in the context of larger questions about race and gender. She started the project to help her process her own name and to create visibility for a common, yet not well known, AANHPI experience. She believes in the transformative power of stories, especially those told by the marginalized, and the importance of telling them in our own voices, rather than through an outside narrator. She is a Narrative Artist of social justice focused projects that center community and healing for women and BIPOC.

Tatyana Kurepina is documentary filmmaker who works with local artists to strengthen their connection to the community around them through visual storytelling. She became involved with My Name Story project not only because of her own experiences grappling with her identity as an immigrant, but because she had a deep sense of urgency to help document stories that have been untold for so long. She is the creator of the My Name Story documentary which explores Judy’s name story while weaving in the stories of the women interviewed for this project. She hopes this documentary encourages all of us to examine the complexities of our identity and how we move through the world.