Anida Yoeu Ali

Performance artist, writer, and global agitator, Anida Yoeu Ali (www.atomicshogun.com) is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Anida is a 2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellow to Cambodia, and her video 1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim won the 2010 Grand Prize award from the One Chicago One Nation Film Competition. Since 1998, Anida has toured over 300 colleges and venues with the spoken word ensemble I Was Born with Two Tongues and the multimedia collective Mango Tribe. She is also a founding member of Young Asians With Power!, Asian American Artists Collective—Chicago, the National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, and MONSOON fine arts journal. Her artistic work has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Illinois Arts Council.