Yuko Kudo. Artist. Social Innovator. Creative Producer. Also, PPAC’s “Director of Love,” who has been keeping folks loved (and sane) ever since she joined in January, 2019. Yuko not only stuck it out through the pandemic, but doubled down on keeping this cooperative alive by stepping up as a Board Member.
As is abundantly clear from this welcome video we snagged off of her website, she’s full of life, love, and many many talents. Whether providing her professional photography services, hosting events, writing-producing-performing her own 1-woman shows, giving a keynote, learning a brand new thing (that she claims she isn’t good at) just to be helpful and then getting really good at that thing, or earnestly checking in on folks after a challenging week, she is always pushing folks forward with love.
Formal Bio:
Yuko Kudo is native Japanese multi-dimensional artist based in New York. She uses art and storytelling to create community, while reminding people they are not alone. Through her work as a photographer, she has appeared in Forbes and TIME magazines, among other media outlets. She facilitates the creation of collaborative educational spaces focused on the intersection of art and activism. Executive Producer of an award winning documentary series "Untapped Storytellers" and a short film "Dear Asian Girls" to address Asian Representation in Arts & Culture. She is also a member of the Artistic Council for People's Theatre Project, Japan Country Chair of G100 Ecocivilisation, and recently graduated from the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC’s Cooperative Leadership Intensive.
Within the Prime Produce ecosystem, she is on the faculty for GROW Externships, a member of Earthlings.NYC’s Turtle Team, and has been serving on PPAC’s Board of Directors since 2020.
“I LOVE YOU! Let's create love. This world needs more healing! They need us.”
— Yuko Kudo
(from a resource-sharing email she sent out to people back in 2020, but this kind of quote could be really from anytime…)
