Denise is a writer, contemporary performance artist, and director who manages SFA’s services for artists, including the Master-Apprentice Artist Award, working to make these programs more accessible for all. A fourth-generation Japanese and Okinawan American, Denise is deeply interested in how we shape identity, culture, and social movements. Her work includes helping create the multidisciplinary performance Shooting Columbus with the Fifth World Collective, a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.