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“ ‘Ssi Ya Gi hopes to learn from Vincent and Louis,’ said Sung, ‘about how they conduct community rituals during meals at Cafe Ohlone, sharing stories while people eat, reviving historicity into the present by eating foods with their elders, as a tactile presence.’ The group’s future plans include more intentional listening suppers and other events that bring intergenerational communities together and highlight elder memories and shared culture.”

— Korean and Ohlone elders share a meaningful meal, Berkeleyside, 2022

“… the trees will even sing. Medina explains that he and Trevino have translated some of the 1960s pop songs that their grandparents played at home. For instance, they’ve recorded a Chochenyo version of the old love song ‘Angel Baby,’ but they’ve changed it so that the song is now addressed to '‘holše noono,” which means ‘beautiful language’—a love song to Chochenyo itself.”

— KQED, 2022

“Indigenous Founders of a Museum Cafe Put Repatriation on the Menu”

— NY Times, 2022

“Their charge was to explore where the decade might take us in response to questions posed by LA Forum such as:  ‘What is the most consequential, momentous issue in L.A. today: Public Health? Racism? Housing? Quality of life? Do we think in utopias or data sets? With feelings or with factors?’ “ 

— KCRW, 2020

“ Sung said she approached her work there as if she were designing for high-end clients. ‘The idea of beauty is underplayed for disadvantaged communities’ “

— NY Times, 2021