Genevieve Erin O'Brien is a Queer Vietnamese-Irish American Woman on a mission.  As a child of a diplomat she spent her early years traversing the globe and has lived in the Philippines, Cameroon, Syria, England, Italy and Brunei.  She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with degrees in Asian American Studies and Political Science with an International Relations emphasis. Erin O'Brien is an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, teacher, popular educator, and workshop facilitator. As an interdisciplinary artist her solo performance art has engaged audiences up and down the West Coast from Los Angeles to Vancouver B.C. Called a "modern day Virgil" by the LA Weekly, Erin addresses issues such as hate crimes, homophobia, violence against women, and more with sensitivity and humor in her performances and films. Performance highlights include being honored by Gay Asian Pacific Services Network as a "Woman of Distinction" and sharing the bill with Margaret Cho at the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles.  Erin was highlighted in the Los Angeles Media Arts Festival Flying Solo Showcase and shared a bill with performance veterans Simon Forti and John Fleck.  Erin has also been selected to perform in Los Angeles's premiere Asian American Artist Showcases Treasure in the House and Fresh Tracks.  Erin was also asked to perform her work for the White House Commission on Asian Pacific Islander Issues, previous to the Commission's quiet death under the current administration.  Erin was an original member of the Rad Asian Sisters workshops, developed by Denise Uyehara. Her solo work has been presented at numerous venues across the west coast including, Highways Theater in Santa Monica, Los Angeles' Japanese American National Museum, Japanese Cultural and Community Center.  Her collaborative work has been presented at Los Angeles' 800 seat Japan American Theater and at the RedCat Theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall.  She has rocked the Pacific Northwest at Seattle's NorthWest Asian American Theater and brought down the house with a rousing stomping ovation at Vancouver BC's Roundhouse Community Center.   Erin has also performed at many major Universities on the West Coast including, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, University of Oregon, and Oregon State University.   She is currently touring her new one-woman show called "The Monk Who Licked Me" as well as developing new performances. As a community organizer, popular educator, and workshop facilitator, Erin has worked for social justice in many arenas.  Erin helped to coordinate Sisterfire a project of INCITE! National Organization of Women of Color Against Violence.  Sisterfire was a 15 city national tour of radical women artists and activists of color.   She was a founder and consultant for Southern Californians for Youth, a network of youth organizations in the Los Angeles area. She developed and directed the UCLA Labor Center's Summer Internship Program.  She has organized with youth of color in Los Angeles as director of UCLA-Labor Occupational Safety and Health youth program - POWER.  Erin has worked directly to defeat a number of divisive California ballot initiatives from 187 to 209, 227 & 226, prop. 21 & 22 and  as the statewide college organizer for Prop 52, a proactive ballot measure to get same day voter registration in California.   Erin was an organizer for Californians for Justice as well as for APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance).   She was also directly involved with the successful campaign for Domestic Partnership in the UC system. Erin was most recently seen in Eugene, Oregon where she was the Director of the Women's Center at the University of Oregon.  There she was able to use her talents as an artist, a community facilitator, as a curator and as an organizer to develop student leaders, engage the campus community and diversify the Women's Center and its 20+ programs. (www.uoregon.edu/~women). Erin has developed curriculum and taught both High School and University classes.  Erin has taught youth worker and environmental awareness classes at Los Angeles high schools.  At UCLA, Erin co-taught Asian American Labor History with Glenn Omatsu.  At the University of Oregon, she taught an Ethnic Studies class she developed, "Political Theater, Theatrical Politics: Using performance and theater for social liberation".  Erin has facilitated Grassroots Organizing workshops and diversity trainings for 10 years as well as developing and conducting popular education sessions for many community, labor and student organizations.  Erin has trained with Augusto Boal studying the Theater of the Oppressed techniques as a tool for social liberation and conducts these workshops on a regular basis. As an active community member, Erin has served on the board of directors of the ACLU of Southern California and lent her skills and support to community-based organizations such as Incite! National and Los Angeles chapter, Youth in Action, Direct Action Network-Los Angeles, Communities for a Better Environment, the Los Angeles Garment Workers Center, Omoi, and was a founding member of Arts In Action, a political and cultural arts collective space in the heart of LA's pico-union neighborhood. Erin is currently completing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.