Emily.Lu Gao on Clubhouse

Bio

🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 23 y/o bipolar poet back on this app to lip sync FOR YOUR LIFE, she/they

✨🤚 I’m learning stand-up & sketch comedy to grow my story telling prowess while I post-grad JOB HUNT; I have exp. in non-profit work, higher education and writing/editing.

🖊spoken word poet/facilitator named “emdash”
✍🏼 page poet workin’ on my 2nd chapbook “ABC”
📰 freelance journalist
• arts & culture specialist
• love conducting interviews
👉new stand-up student b/c funny (therapy & art) is what saved me
✏️ essay tutor: I make you writer better
🎼 PROUD alto songwriter
• basic uke & guitar
🙋🏻‍♀️ 我中文名字是高璐璐！

🎉 I’ve helped plan art events like...
• The Bishop’s School Empowerment Week (‘15), Vagina Monologues @ Occidental College (‘16, ‘17), APAHM Week @ Occidental College (‘15, ‘16), San Diego Pride (‘18), Monthly Spoken Word Mic & Workshop @ Claremont College (‘19-‘20), 5C Queer Christian Dinner Series (‘19-20) 🙏, 79th Annual Nisei Week @ Little Tokyo, LA (‘19), Cranes for Change: Bicoastal AAPI Flash Fundraiser (‘20)

👩🏻‍🎓 Pitzer College, ‘21
• B.A. in Asian American Studies
• Minor in Sociology
👉🧠 My research is on Tuesday Night Cafe (TNC): The Longest Running Asian American Open Mic, Healing in Community through Public Performing Arts & Collective Catharsis

✅ I love talkin’ Adventure Time, education reform, therapy, & putting theory into praxis
👑 INFJ || Type-D (on DISC test)
👋 Enneagram 4️⃣, Wing 3️⃣
🧘🏻‍♀️🌿 yoga plant zaddy
🎤 former podcast host of “Yellownin”

🎉 MY OTHER ED.:
• Masakhane Center Sex Ed. Training
• Improv UCB 101 Week Intensive
• Sketch Comedy UCB 101

💰 Venmo: @emily-gao29

📍 L.A, California

📌tldr; lovechild of AOC & Ali Wong who has been described as “depressing but cute”