Betty Yu is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, educator and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu is a socially engaged multimedia artist integrating documentary film, new media platforms and community-infused approaches into her practice. Betty co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing.  Betty was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident and received the 2016 SOAPBOX Artist Award from Laundromat Project. Ms. Yu has been awarded several artist residencies which include the International Studio & Curatorial Program and SPACE at Ryder Farm. Ms. Yu's work has been exhibited, screened and featured at the Directors Guild of America, Brooklyn Museum, Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Tribeca's Film Festival's Interactive Showcase, and The Eastman Kodak Museum. Betty won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Award for her film "Three Tours" about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq and their journey to overcome their PTSD. Ms. Yu is a 2017-18 fellow of the Intercultural Leadership Institute. Betty recently had her first solo exhibition, "(Dis)Placed in Sunset Park" at Open Source Gallery in September 2018 in New York City. This work was also included in 2019 BRIC’s Biennial where her project received an honorable mention in the New York Times.  Ms. Yu holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. Betty teaches video, social practice, art and activism at Pratt Institute, John Jay College, and the The New School. In addition, Betty has close to 20 years of community, media justice and labor organizing experience. She is currently in the 2019-2020 International Center of Photography's New Media Narratives Program.