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Thet Shein Win, Executive Director

Thet Shein Win (she/her) is a Burmese-American writer, artist, and teacher. She moved to the California Bay Area in 1991 to attend the Mills College MFA program in sculpture, where she studied with Hung Liu and Moira Roth, among others. She has exhibited at various Bay Area art institutions, including Headlands Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Art Center, and her work was included in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts inaugural exhibition. She has served on the Southern Exposure Curatorial Committee and Board of Directors, and is currently on the Board of Mahapajapati Monastery. She has also taught sculpture, curated art shows, and conducted cultural anthropological research about artists’ labor. She currently leads Lahpet Thoke Writing Circles for the Global Majority, and was a 2024 Writers Grotto Rooted & Written Memoir Fellow. Thet has a B.A. in Fine Art and Literature from Claremont McKenna College, an M.F.A. in sculpture from Mills College, and an M.A./Ph.D. ABD in cultural anthropology from Stanford. She lives with her husband, two children, one dog, two cats, and many iridescent fish in Berkeley, California.