Tati Nguyen is an artist and arts educator who hails from Vietnam. Educated on three continents, her multicultural experiences have allowed her to develop a variety of arts curricula that span cultures, ages, and mediums. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from CalArts. She draws, paints, directs films and videos, writes and illustrates children's books, works in narrative film and television, and is a published songwriter with the band M Shanghai. Tati lives in Harlem with her husband and daughter.