Kristina Wong

Kristina Wong is an award-winning performance artist, guest comedian on late-night television, writer, and former elected official in Los Angeles Koreatown. She's the first Asian American Woman to be named Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama for her solo show Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. The show detailed her real-life leadership of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers led primarily by women of color who shipped tens of thousands of free homemade masks to vulnerable communities during the pandemic. She stars as "Auntie Kristina" in the Radical Cram School web series, which she created. She's also the recipient of the Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Show, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Doris Duke Artist Award.