Theodore
Lau

Concentration 

Art History and English

Award Year 

2018

Theodore (Theo) Lau is a Junior .5'er concentrating in Art History and English on the nonfiction writing track, interested in mobilizing myriad forms (writing, video/audio projects, curatorial projects) of dissemination in order to produce socially productive imaginaries. He finds structure to his practices across the boundaries of art (history), media, and culture through the frame of empowering underrepresented communities in response to exclusionary gatekeeping within his fields of operation. He believes that storytelling functions as a coherent worldmaking in which social justice can achieve its most effective grounding, a means for the empowerment of communities as well as the analysis of systems, of individual injustices and the grounding mechanics which legitimize them. At Brown, he additionally serves as a Co-Coordinator of the Mixed Asian/ Pacific Islander Student Heritage Club, a Writing Fellow, a DUG Leader for the HIAA department, and heads a steering committee for Brown Outdoor Leadership Training.