Traci Kato-Kiriyama is an interdisciplinary artist, arts producer, and community organizer. She is the founder of the Tuesday Night Cafe Project, a multi-disciplinary, free-to-the-public performance space that gathers local Los Angeles artists and the Aslan Pacific Islander community in the downtown and Little Tokyo regions of the city. In the midst of finishing the third act of Chasing Dad, a performance about a reading of a play she's writing, Kato-Kiriyama looks forward to taking the piece to its next stage after a successful presentation last summer at the John Anson Ford's INSIDE the Ford. Her dedication to the community that centers around her work with youth in projects that include Eskuwela Kultura, the Khmer Girls in Action, and the Hmong community stories project with Nobuko Miyamoto at the University of Wisconsin. Other projects include zero 3 and Great Leap's Collaborators 1. She is excited to be a part of today's Day of Remembrance and the work that NCRR and the 9/11 Committee puts forth for our community in Los Angeles and beyond.