Co-Founder | Graphic Design, Administration, and Volunteer Coordination

Registered Behavior Technician at Pediatric Partners

Graduate Student at the University of South Florida

Hannah is one of the founding members of the Asian Night Market and has been an active member of the AAPI community in Fargo namely starting NDSU’s first Asian Student Organization and annual Lunar New Year celebration. Through her community work and leadership experience, she is an asset to facilitating discussion and further developing the event. This year she will continue her role designing graphics and posters for the event, leading communications, coordinating volunteers, finances, and other various duties.

As a Chinese American adoptee and immigrant, she aspires to convey her values of community, diversity, and advocacy everywhere she goes and with everyone she meets. Hannah is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis to become a Behavior Analyst. The Asian Night Market has become one of Hannah’s greatest achievements and she cannot wait to share everything she and the group have been working on.

Co-Founder | Social Media Manager and Vendor Coordinator

NDSU Graduate with Bachelors in Visual Arts and emphasis in Photography

Since moving to Fargo from California, Sacred has been passionate about creating connections within the growing community of Fargo-Moorhead. Sacred first met the other founders through NDSU’s Asian Student Organization and soon after joined the Asian Night Market team as a co-organizer and artist, creating a short film featured at the first Asian Night Market.

Sacred is the manager of the Asian Night Market Instagram and Facebook pages as well as the main contact for vendors. In these roles, she has fostered lasting relationships within the AAPI community, building a supportive network for which she is profoundly grateful.

Co-Founder | Sponsorship Coordinator and Manager

NDAUWU 2024 Fellow, NOTICE Coalition and Edgelands Institute

Community Partner of the STEM Restorative Justice Collective

A first-generation Asian American woman, Shayna loves connecting with people and learning about their goals and motivations. Shayna’s family is from Singapore and Malaysia, but her immediate family is spread across the United States. Shayna has learned from numerous teachers, community leaders, storytellers, aunts, uncles, and especially friends. Communities she has been a part of include Boston, Pittsburgh, Carmel, Minot, Singapore, and Ipoh, Malaysia. Moving frequently has played a large part in how Shayna connects with others as well as recognizing the need to make a better future for AAPI individuals like herself.

As a co-founder of the Asian Night Market, she takes great pride in having invited strangers into her studio apartment, post-protest, to get to know AAPI's despair and loss and translate this into triumph and local change! Shayna has a Bachelor's and Master's in architecture, and enjoys plants and playing rugby within the Red River Rough Riders!

Site Coordinator and Event Outreach/ Promotion

Community Engagement Coordinator at the Plains Art Museum

Chelsea has worked with the Asian Night Market since 2022. Her support began when the event first came to Plains Art Museum and she has continued to work with the team ever since. She helps the event run smoothly on the day of with the help of the volunteers and team members. Growing up in the Twin Cities Metro area, the exposure to AAPI culture Chelsea received was through family and family friends. Rarely, did she see Filipino-American culture represented outside of that. As a Biracial Filipino American, she strives to represent Filipino and AAPI culture whenever and wherever she can (especially with her delicious homemade lumpia!) Chelsea is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead (2019) with degrees in Pre-Professional Studio Art and Heritage & Museum Studies. She has worked at the Plains Art Museum since 2018. From 2022-2023, Chelsea was a cohort member of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship.

Project Manager and News Media Liaison

Implementation Project Manager at Evolent Health

Ann, joined our team in 2023, brings her project management expertise to enhance the efficiency of our annual event from planning to execution throughout the day of the event. She also leads communications with local news media outlets to promote the event and coordinate interviews. Having spent her childhood in Fargo, she holds memories of the Mid-Autumn Festival and Tết hosted by the local Vietnamese community. After 15 years residing in the Washington D.C. metro area, she returns to Fargo motivated by her experiences and is inspired to support our inclusive event showcasing Asian cuisines, artistry, and small businesses while uniting the FM area community. She enjoys hiking and traveling in her leisure time.

Administrative Assistant

Clinical Pharmacist at Sanford Medical Center

Erica is a second generation Japanese American woman originally from central Minnesota and has now been in the Fargo metro for the past several years. Growing up in rural MN, there was very limited exposure to AAPI heritage and culture. Now, she is excited to be involved in the AAPI community in Fargo and bring awareness of APPI cultures to the local community. Erica holds a Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from North Dakota State University. She lives in West Fargo with her significant other and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Gilroy. Together, they enjoy traveling while trying different restaurants and breweries.

Administrative Assistant

Undergraduate Student

Allen is a Chinese American interracial adoptee who is currently studying pre medicine as well as Chinese Language and Culture at Concordia College. With a passion for helping others and being involved in his community, he has hopes of attending medical school in the future to achieve his medical license. Combined with his language studies at Concordia, Allen is excited to reconnect with his cultural heritage, as well as getting to know new members of the community through the Asian Night Market event; celebrating and sharing local Asian American businesses, families, and communities.

Administrative Assistant

Heart of House Manager at Nothing Bundt Cakes

Damian grew up in a variety of places, New York, Arizona, North Dakota and even Belgium! An alumni of the Arizona Culinary Institute and baker of 7 years he enjoys the life of a pastry chef. With his cats, Romeo and Juliet, his prized mineralogy collection, and pension to dabble in a variety of hobbies he passes the days. From his Korea born mother he sees the Korean culture through the lens of a mixed child, father being from western New York. In Fargo, he has been able to finally connect to an Asian community he can feel at home with and can explore the untapped potential of his heritage and experience.