Marika Emi Yano Wilson is a Master’s student whose research interests include visual and material discourses in the tropics, queer tropicality, and Indigenous and settler resistance to neocolonialism in the arts, particularly in Hawaiʻi. Her academic background includes a B.A. in Women’s Studies and B.F.A. in Studio Art (Printmaking) from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, as well as a culinary degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City. She is a former director of contemporary art venue Aupuni Space, and has participated as an artist and arts organizer in various collectives and organizations across Oʻahu, where she was born and raised. She is the founder and director of nonprofit publishing press, Tropic Editions, which publishes experimental, critical, place-based artists’ books from the tropical diaspora. She still moonlights as a freelance graphic designer and in her spare time runs two Risograph printers out of her studio in Mānoa.