allie ho (they/she/he) is a Taiwanese immigrant who grew up in Semiahmoo, Katzie, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam lands (Metro Vancouver, Canada). They are an activist (local and international), multi-media artist, jazz and classical musician, facilitator, environmental justice practitioner, polyamorous and queer advocate, joker, Tetris-fanatic, a lover of people and community, and a person who seeks a just change for all around them—intimately and beyond.

allie also goes by their Mandarin name: 何曼筠 (pronounced Hé Màn Yún), which means ‘beautiful bamboo.’ A name that was divined by stroke number at birth by their grandfather in a temple, and characters meaningfully chosen by their parents. Colonial thoughts of assimilation and belonging taught me to hate my name at a young age while attending the public school system in ‘Canada’ where it was frowned upon to be not fully Canadian. Now, it is a name of lineage, of pride in my culture, to be the 29th generation Hakka-Taiwanese to my mother’s father’s side, and the next matriarch in line to my father’s mother’s side.