Co-Founder | Graphic Design, Administration, and Volunteer Coordination

Registered Behavior Technician @ Pediatric Partners

Hannah is one of the founding members of the Asian Night Market and has been an active member of the AAPI community in Fargo namely starting NDSU’s first Asian Student Organization and annual Lunar New Year celebration. Through her community work and experience leading ASO and LNY, she is an asset to facilitating discussion and further developing the event. This year she will continue her role designing graphics and posters for the event, leading communications, coordinating volunteers, finances, and other various duties.

As a Chinese American adoptee and immigrant, she aspires to convey her values of community, diversity, and advocacy everywhere she goes and with everyone she meets. Hannah is a graduate of NDSU, class of 2023, with a degree in Human Development and Family Science as well as Psychology. She is currently on track to pursue a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology with a focus on Asian Mental Health. The Asian Night Market has become one of Hannah’s greatest achievements and she cannot wait to share everything she and the group have been working on.

Co-Founder | Social Media Manager and Vendor Coordinator

NDSU Graduate with Bachelors in Visual Arts and emphasis in Photography

Sacred is the manager of the Asian Night Market Instagram and Facebook pages as well as the main contact for vendors.

Since moving to Fargo from California, Sacred has been passionate about creating connections within the growing community of Fargo-Moorhead. Sacred first met the other founders through NDSU’s Asian Student Organization and soon after joined the Asian Night Market team as a co-organizer and artist, creating a short film featured at the first Asian Night Market. Being a part of the Asian Night Market has fueled Sacred’s passion for event planning which she hopes to continue after graduating from NDSU this May 2024.

Co-Founder | Sponsorship Coordinator and Manager

Event Organizer for the FM International Potluck & Community Partner of the STEM Restorative Justice Collective

A first-generation Asian American woman, Shayna loves connecting with people and learning about their goals and motivations. Her role on the Asian night market team is to build, maintain, and grow community support through sponsorship of the event and team resources. Shayna’s family is from Singapore and Malaysia, but her immediate family is spread across the United States. Shayna has learned from numerous teachers, community leaders, storytellers, aunts, uncles, and especially friends. Communities she has been a part of include Boston, Pittsburgh, Carmel, Minot, Singapore, and Ipoh, Malaysia. Moving frequently has played a large part in how Shayna connects with others as well as recognizing the need to make a better future for AAPI individuals like herself.

As a co-founder of the Asian Night market, she takes great pride in having invited strangers into her studio apartment, post-protest, to get to know AAPI's despair and loss and translate this into triumph and local change! Shayna has a Bachelor's and Master's in architecture, and enjoys plants and playing rugby within the Red River Rough Riders! Participation in her community helps ground her beliefs and understanding of the way others navigate their goals and identities.

Performance Coordinator, Security Coordinator and Contact

Plains Art Museum, Coordinator, Voices of Creative Change Initiative | Fugitive Laboratory for Ideas & Creativity

Adjunct Faculty, Upper Division Writing, @NDSU

Site Security Officer, Intelligent Solutions Group @ John Deere

Kelvin was one of the inaugural team members in 2022, seeding and cultivating the partnership between the Plains Art Museum and the Asian Night Market. Kelvin brings a wide range of experience to the team from developing programmatic initiatives, developing and implementing programmatic goals and outcomes, and developing evaluation and assessment rubrics to general program management, performance coordination, and security protocols and assessment. Kelvin is a native of Sparta, GA, with professional performance experience as a Jazz pianist, who holds bachelor's degrees in music & and music composition as well as an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Rhetoric & Composition, American studies, and Music from Washington State University.

With this, Kelvin has 19 years of University teaching experience (including courses in Comparative Ethnic studies, American studies, Black studies, Research Methods, undergraduate Capstone courses, first-year writing, and upper-division writing). Kelvin has also dedicated an equal number of years to university and community service. In the communities in which Kelvin has resided, he has worked extensively in Adult Foster Care in a supervisory and program coordinator capacity. Kelvin has also received several awards and recognitions. When Kelvin initially met Hannah and Shayna in late winter of 2021, he immediately felt the genuine, warm, and ambitious spirit that they both possessed. Also, as a person of color, Kelvin wanted to support their vision, support actualizing that vision, while also remaining an ally that shares the burden of navigating an often homogenous corporate & cultural landscape. It gives me great pleasure to support this vision and cultivate a productive relationship between the Plains Art Museum and F-M-WF’s communities of color.

Site Coordinator and Event Outreach/ Promotion

Community Engagement Coordinator @ Plains Art Museum

Chelsea, via her work with the Plains Art Museum, has helped to support the Asian Night Market since 2022. Through her knowledge of the museum, she helps the event run smoothly on the day of with the help of the volunteers, team members, and museum staff. Along with her community outreach for the Plains Art Museum, Chelsea also proudly supports and shares information about the Asian Night Market at events wherein she represents the museum.

Growing up in the Twin Cities Metro area, the exposure to AAPI culture Chelsea received was through family and family friends. Rarely, did she see Filipino-American culture represented outside of that. As a Biracial Filipino American, she strives to represent Filipino and AAPI culture whenever and wherever she can (especially with her delicious homemade lumpia!) Chelsea is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead (Class of ’19) with degrees in Pre-Professional Studio Art and Heritage & Museum Studies. She has worked at the Plains Art Museum since 2018. From 2022-2023, Chelsea was a cohort member of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship.

Project Manager, Website, and News Media Liaison

Principal Consultant @ A3 Solutions LLC

Ann, joined our team in early 2023, utilizes her project management expertise to enhance the efficiency of our annual event, managing from initial planning to execution on event day. In addition, she takes charge of communicating with local news media outlets, ensuring effective dissemination of information and coordinating interviews. Furthermore, she led the creation of Asian Night Market’s official website launched in March 2024.

Raised in Fargo, she holds memories of the Mid-Autumn Festival and Tết hosted by the local Vietnamese Association during her childhood. After residing in Washington D.C. for 15 years, she returns to Fargo motivated by her enriching experiences and inspired to contribute to our inclusive event. She is excited to support and promote Asian cuisines, artistry, and small businesses while uniting the FM area community in celebration, discovery, and appreciation.

Currently a Principal Consultant at A3 Solutions LLC, Ann has over 15 years of healthcare administration and management consulting experience in both non-profit and private sectors. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Dear NICU Mama, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting NICU mothers.